COVID-19: Four new deaths, five more cases reported in Wyandotte County
Four additional deaths and five more cases of the new coronavirus were reported Monday in Wyandotte County.
The day after Easter Sunday, the county totaled 336 cases and 28 deaths, according to county data released at 1:30 p.m. Monday. The number of hospitalized patients remained at 56.
The number of test results returned since the Sunday afternoon update was not immediately available.
The largest COVID-19 outbreak in Kansas is focused at Riverbend Post Acute Rehabilitation Center in Kansas City, Kansas, where at least a dozen residents have died since the first fatality linked to the facility occurred on April 5.
The center’s two most recent deaths were announced Sunday. So far, 90 residents and 20 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19, according to Wyandotte County’s health department. As of Sunday afternoon, five residents were hospitalized with COVID-19 complications, officials said. The facility had about 130 residents and almost 100 employees.
At least one coronavirus-related death in Kansas and more than a dozen other confirmed cases are tied to a church conference in Wyandotte County, health officials said.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has identified at least 15 cases associated with the Kansas East Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction’s Ministers and Workers Conference held March 16-22 at the Miracle Temple Church of God in Christ, 2106 Quindaro Blvd.
In neighboring Johnson County, which has recorded the second highest number of cases in the state, officials reported 14 deaths and 300 cases as of Sunday afternoon.
In Kansas, at least 62 of the 1,376 people who tested positive for the virus had died as of Monday morning, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
In Missouri, officials reported 4,160 cases and 110 deaths across the state as of Sunday afternoon.
Nationwide, there are more than 547,600 cases and more than 21,600 deaths as of early Monday afternoon, according to a database maintained by Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there were more than 1,883,100 cases and more than 117,500 deaths.
