Gov. Andy Beshear released new recommendations to "combat the surge" of recent COVID-19 cases in counties where the spread is most severe at his regular briefing on Kentucky's coronavirus response Monday.
Those recommendations include reducing in-person shopping and using curbside pickup when possible, avoiding all informal gatherings, ordering take-out from restaurants instead of dining in, employers allowing people to work from home if possible, and operating "non-critical" government offices virtually.
"Now, these are not mandates -- these are recommendations on how each communities can make their communities safer, and the reason they aren't mandates is mandates only work if people follow them, and we know that encouragement will do more than enforcement to get people on board," the governor said Monday.
As of Monday, Bracken County is the only county in Northern Kentucky designated "red," indicating a "critical" spread of 25 cases or more per 100,000 people. You can track Kentucky's incidence rate map here.