Covid-19 update: Louisville officials plead for social distance - Health News

As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov.

• Louisville officials "continued to address community concerns about reports of large gatherings of people, the Courier Journal reports. Police Chief Steve Conrad said in a Facebook Live session that his officers spend a "great deal of time responding to situations where people are gathering" but "We cannot arrest someone for standing too close to another person — nor do we want to do that. . . . We're asking for cooperation and in some cases begging for cooperation. But at this point, we do not have the authority to make an arrest in regards to social distancing."

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