COVINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky is seeing a huge spike in coronavirus cases. Thursday Gov. Andy Beshear announced 80 of Kentucky's 120 counties are in the red zone. 

This includes the Northern Kentucky counties of Boone, Kenton, and Campbell. Counties just to the South are trending towards the red status as well.

Be Concerned, a non-profit organization is helping combat active coronavirus cases and it is tough with flu season inching closer.

“It’s a real hardcore tangible way for the City of Covington and Be Concerned being able to help the Covington residents, right now, to stop the spread of this,” said Andy Brunsman, executive director of Be Concerned.

The non-profit is packing what’s called "Co-Cubed" boxes. It stands for ‘Combatting COVID in Covington.’

Volunteer James Sorrell is helping fill these boxes with cleaning and hygiene supplies.

“It’s nice. It’s never bad to help people no matter what the situation is,” Sorrell said. 

The non-profit’s regular clients are already getting these boxes, but this weekend, they will distribute a portion of 2,000 boxes to any Covington resident.

“So say there’s a Covington family is getting ample support for their food budget, from food stamps, they may not have the wiggle room in their budget to purchase these items,” Brunsman said. That’s where it becomes important to realize these are items that aren’t food stamp purchasable and also they’re also very hard to find right now and in limited quantity.”

Brunsman said the needs of the community during the pandemic have been evolving and so the organization is adapting. 

“We started thinking, what had been the biggest hurdles for people in the community is been accessing these supplies especially when these supplies have really gone up in cost and availability,” Brunsman said.

Be Concerned purchased these items through a $60,600 grant awarded by the City of Covington through CARES Act funding.

The non-profit plans to distribute these boxes on the first Saturday in November, December, and January.

Saturday they will hand out 120 boxes to Covington residents. The event starts at 11 a.m. and runs until 3 p.m. or until the 120 boxes run out. They will be located in the parking lot of Be Concerned at 1100 Pike St.  

If you would like a box, bring a photo ID and a piece of mail from the past 30 days to prove Covington residency. Social distancing procedures will be in place so those receiving boxes will not need to get out of their cars.