15 in Missouri test positive for coronavirus. Here’s where the cases were found.
Fifteen people in Missouri, including a woman in her 80s in eastern Jackson County, have tested positive for the new coronavirus, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said Tuesday night.
In a post on Twitter, Parson said there have now been four cases in Greene County, four in St. Louis County, two in Cass County, one in St. Louis city and one each in Boone, Cole, Henry and Jackson counties.
Of the nearly 270 people tested for the COVID-19 virus in Missouri, more than 250 have come back negative, Parson said.
The governor posted about the confirmed cases about 30 minutes before he was set to hold a news conference about the outbreak.
Also on Tuesday, Cerner, the global health care IT firm, told workers at the Realizations campus in south Kansas City that one of their peers had tested positive for COVID-19.
The Kansas City Health Department had not received word that any Kansas City resident had tested positive for the disease Tuesday night. It was not clear if the Cerner patient represented a new case.
By Tuesday afternoon, 18 cases of the disease had been identified across the state line in Kansas.
This story was originally published March 17, 2020 at 6:39 PM.
