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Renovations and new homes are on the way for Fort Knox. The U.S. Army and LendLease, a private housing company, recently negotiated multi-million dollar agreement to provide 6 Army posts with new houses and to renovate older ones. Knox Hills at Fort Knox is one of those locations. Across the six posts, LendLease officials say they’ll renovate more than 12,000 homes, and will build 1,200 new residences. Officials say work is expected to begin in the spring.
Covid-19 cases have been the dominant story lines for the past few months, but what about flu cases this season?
Lincoln Trail District Health officials say that they’ve had just 148 confirmed cases of the flu so far this flu season. It’s a significant drop from this time last year. At that time, officials say they had over 13,000 confirmed cases of the flu. Officials did note though that reported cases include only PCR flu tests and not their rapid test counterparts.