Clinton County’s most recent surge of COVID-19 cases appears to be on a much welcomed downward trend, with the of released cases outnumbering the new cases for the third consecutive week.

In the past week of reports to the public and media from Lake Cumberland District Health Department, Clinton County saw 42 new cases added to it’s totals, while during that same time, the agency accounted for 51 COVID-19 cases being released as no longer contagious.

As of Tuesday morning of this week, Clinton County had 34 active cases, according to the LCDHD.

Last week’s single high number of new cases came on two days when 14 new cases were added to the totals on both Tuesday and Thursday.

The highest number of current/active cases on any particular day during the most recent seven day reporting period was on Thursday, when there were 53 active cases here.

By comparison, just three weeks ago, on Tuesday, August 31, Clinton County recorded its all time record high number of active cases since the beginning of the pandemic, when the LCDHD reported 159 COVID-19 cases involving Clinton County patients.

During the past week, there were no new deaths among Clinton County patients due to the COVID-19 disease.

To date, Clinton County has had 33 residents who died as a result of COVID-19.

As of Tuesday morning, the number of Clinton County COVID-19 patients being treated in area hospitals remained at three, unchanged from the prior week’s report.

While still lagging far behind the rest of the state and most of the 10 county LCDHD area, Clinton County’s vaccination rate climbed slightly over the past week, with LCDHD reporting that as of Tuesday morning, 37.56 of eligible Clinton County residents had been vaccinated.

That trails Kentucky’s reported vaccination rate of 59 percent, and places Clinton County eighth among the 10 counties in the district, ahead of Adair County (37.27 percent) and Casey County (34.75 percent)

The district is led in vaccination rate by Taylor County (51.69 percent) and Pulaski County (48.33 percent).

Vaccinations against the virus are now readily available at several locations in Albany.

Vaccination appointments through The Med Center at Albany are available, and those vaccines are now being given on site at the local hospital.

Appointments for getting the vaccine may be obtained by texting SHOT to 606-387-3646 or by emailing AlbanyVaccine@mchealth.net, or by calling 606-387-3646 and leaving a message.

Vaccines are also now available again at the Clinton County Health Department.

Vaccination appointments through the Clinton County Health Department, or more information about the vaccines being offered and the vaccination dates and times, may be obtained by calling 606-387-5711.

Vaccines are also available at most Albany pharmacies and those seeking a vaccine are urged to call your favorite pharmacy for information.

In addition to Clinton County’s current 34 cases, numbers across the 10 county LCDHD district, along with the number of patients being treated in area hospitals in parentheses, if any, were: Adair 99 (4), Casey 45 (4), Cumberland 52 (2), Green 43 (5), McCreary 112, Pulaski 175 (14), Russell 160, Taylor 111 (1), Wayne 171 (5).