Active COVID-19 cases drop by almost 5,000 this week

Governor Justice says he is doing he can do get additional doses of COVID-19 vaccine. The Biden administration is pledging to increase the state’s supply to thirty-thousand doses next week.

There are eight counties in the red on the state’s COVID-19 alert map. Active cases of the virus have decreased by almost five-thousand over the past week, to less than 18-thousnad. The state added almost six-hundred new cases and twenty more people have died.