COVID-19 cases in Kansas near 850 after about 100 more reported; deaths total 25
Nearly 850 people in Kansas have tested positive for the new coronavirus after about 100 more infections were reported Monday.
That includes more than 210 cases in Johnson County and 180 in Wyandotte County, state officials said.
Of the 845 cases, 25 people have died and 198 have been hospitalized. With more than 8,200 negative tests, residents were testing positive at a rate of about 9%, according to data from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
Johnson and Wyandotte counties have seen the first and second most confirmed cases with nine and seven deaths, respectively.
Fifty-three of Kansas’ 105 counties report positive cases. The median age of those who have tested positive across the state is 55, though the virus has infected people from ages under 1 up to 97. About 460 of the infected are female while 380 are male, the state reported.
The cases include 124 in Sedgwick County (Wichita), 40 in Leavenworth County and 36 in Shawnee County (Topeka).
Of the positive cases, more than 630 people were tested at private labs while nearly 215 were tested by Kansas officials.
Across the state line, Missouri has reported 2,367 cases and 34 deaths as of Monday, state officials said. Missouri has reported about three times as many cases as Kansas, but has also tested about three times as many people.
Nationwide, there were more than 337,900 cases and 9,600 deaths as of Monday morning, according to a database maintained by Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there were more than 1,289,000 cases and 70,590 deaths.
