{"id":105777,"date":"2020-04-20T06:42:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T13:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/kentucky-reports-highest-coronavirus-infection-increase-after-a-week-of-protests-to-reopen-state"},"modified":"2020-04-20T06:42:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T13:42:30","slug":"kentucky-reports-highest-coronavirus-infection-increase-after-a-week-of-protests-to-reopen-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/kentucky-reports-highest-coronavirus-infection-increase-after-a-week-of-protests-to-reopen-state","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky reports highest coronavirus infection increase after a week of protests to reopen state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/video.newsweek.com\/transcoder\/720p\/2576\/coronavirus-by-the-numbers-redo-11-1587160156.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Democratic Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wdrb.com\/news\/coronavirus\/watch-live-kentucky-reports-single-day-high-of-273-new-covid-19-cases-beshear-announces\/article_d2ca2454-8276-11ea-b63d-23f1ff3d6382.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> Sunday that the state had set a grim record with 273 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, the highest single-day rise to date. Kentucky\u2019s increase in infected individuals comes after protesters took to the streets throughout the week to call for the state to be reopened.<\/p>\n<p>With the 273 additional confirmed infections, Kentucky now has 2,960 cases of the novel virus and 1,122 recoveries. Beshear also announced four new deaths on Sunday, bringing the total number of fatalities across the state to 148.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are still in the midst of this fight against a deadly and highly contagious virus,\u201d the governor said during his daily news conference. \u201cLet\u2019s make sure, as much as we\u2019re looking at those benchmarks and we\u2019re looking at the future, that we are acting in the present and we are doing the things that it takes to protect one another.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear announced Sunday that the state had set a grim record with 273 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, the highest single-day rise to date. Kentucky\u2019s increase in infected individuals comes after protesters took to the streets throughout the week to call for the state to be reopened. With the 273 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}