Coronavirus death reported Tuesday in Wyandotte County
One more person has died of complications related to the new coronavirus in Wyandotte County, but officials reported no new cases overnight.
As of 8:20 a.m. Tuesday, the county totaled 336 cases and 29 deaths, according to data released by the county. The number of hospitalized patients remained at 56.
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 death 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 309 cases as of Monday afternoon.
The total number of cases Monday in the Kansas City metro area sat at 1,274, including 56 deaths, Monday afternoon.
In Kansas, at least 62 of the 1,376 people who tested positive for the virus had died as of Monday, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
In Missouri, officials reported 4,388 cases and 114 deaths across the state as of Monday afternoon. Missouri has reported more than three times as many cases as Kansas, but has also tested more than three times as many people.
Nationwide, there are more than 547,600 cases and more than 21,600 deaths as of early Tuesday morning, according to a database maintained by Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there were more than 1,934,500 cases and nearly 121,000 deaths.
This story was originally published April 14, 2020 at 10:29 AM.
