Kim Rafferty

Commissioners say he was diagnosed with COVID-19 and was in the hospital fighting for his life.

The infection rate as of December 1 is listed as 44.60.

There are 17,125 active cases.

The governor toured the Ohio Department of Health’s Receipt, Store, and Stage (RSS) warehouse facility, located in the central part of the state.

As COVID-19 cases climb across the U.S., pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is working to test a new vaccine and early results show it’s more than 70 percent effective.

The cases range from people in their teens to their 90s.

That’s according to the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department.

KDMC says this begins Wednesday, December 2.

The governor said there were 4,151 new cases in Kentucky – a record since the pandemic started in spring. He also announced the deaths of 35 more Kentuckians -- another record.

It was reported just before 3 p.m. along Dutch Hollow Road.

There have also been 119 additional deaths related to COVID-19.