Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is set to announce “new steps” Monday as the state experiences rising COVID-19 case numbers.

According to a statement issued Sunday afternoon, Beshear says Kentucky and the White House have agreed that additional steps need to be taken to address the ongoing, and escalating, COVID-19 pandemic. Beshear did not mention, nor tease the nature of those anticipated “steps” that are to be announced.

“I want you to know that the White House and Kentucky state government are in complete agreement that the escalation of cases is going to require us to take some new steps,” Beshear said Sunday. “We’re going to announce those steps tomorrow and we’ll talk through the what and the why behind each one.” 

The governor’s statement came as he announced the state had crossed the 27,000-mark for COVID-19 cases in Kentucky, and that the state’s death toll as a result of the pandemic had reached 700. Beshear announced 316 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, along with four new deaths, including that of a 70-year-old woman from Harlan County.

Kentucky has had at least 27,079 COVID-19 cases, Beshear’s office said. Of the new cases announced Sunday, eight were from children aged 5 or younger.

On Friday, Beshear’s office announced Kentucky had experienced the second-highest number of newly-reported COVID-19 cases, with 797 new cases reported that day. On Saturday, the state, again, set the second-highest number of newly reported cases it had experienced. On Saturday, Beshear’s office announced that there were 836 new COVID-19 cases in Kentucky, and that the state’s positivity rate had increased to 5.41 percent.

The first confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported in Kentucky on March 6.