Covid-19 update: Police issue notices telling those attending in-person church service to quarantine themselves for 14 days-HEALTHYLIVE

State police put these notices on windshields of vehicles at Maryville Baptist Church in Hillview. (Courier Journal photo)

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.

In covid-19 news today:

• Enforcing Gov. Andy Beshear's order against mass gatherings, state police recorded license plates and placed self-quarantine notices on about 50 cars at Maryville Baptist Church in Hillview Sunday morning, reports Sarah Ladd of the Courier Journal. Pastor Jack Roberts and some other motorists covered the plates on their vehicles. Earlier, someone had dumped piles of nails in entrances to the Bullitt County church's parking lot.
• Many churches held drive-in services, but Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said even that was risky, and said he would have police record license plates at such services. At On Fire Christian Church, which got a restraining order against Fischer, "pastor Chuck Salvo stood on a podium above 100 or so cars in the parking lot, starting the Easter morning service by singing “God Bless the U.S.A.” and waving the red, white and blue flag to a chorus of honks from churchgoers," Ladd reports. "Before getting into his resurrection sermon, Salvo said he recognized that government officials 'are up against a tremendous challenge' and led the congregation in a prayer. He then recited the CDC guidelines for drive-in services."
• Harlan County Judge-Executive Dan Mosley told Ladd that state police had met with pastors there, and several decided to do drive-in instead of in-person services: "Mosley had said in a Facebook post on Saturday that he was aware of 10 churches in his county that were planning in-person Easter services." Beshear said that day he was expecting only seven statewide.
• Health experts hope that social-distancing rules can be pulled back "at least in some ways, maybe next month," in certain places, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on CNN. "There's an extraordinary risk of there being a rebound" if too much is relaxed too soon, he said.

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