One more COVID-19 death, five new virus cases reported in Wyandotte County
One more death and five additional cases of the new coronavirus were reported in Wyandotte County on Monday morning.
Thirty-eight people have now died from COVID-19 in Wyandotte County, according to county health department data posted Monday morning.
In total, 417 people have tested positive for the disease as of Sunday, according to data collected by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
The largest COVID-19 outbreak in Kansas is focused at Riverbend Post Acute Rehabilitation Center in Kansas City, Kansas, where at least 19 residents have died since the first death linked to the facility occurred on April 5. As of Thursday, the number of confirmed cases linked to the facility was at 116.
A ministers’ conference held mid-March in Kansas City, Kansas, has resulted in 44 cases and five deaths from COVID-19, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
Wyandotte County continues to see the highest number of positive cases in the state, according to health officials.
Across Kansas, 1,849 have tested positive and 92 have died from the coronavirus, according to the latest statistics, updated by the Kansas Department of Health and the Environment. At least 390 people have been admitted to the hospital.
With 16,281 negative tests returned, the figures showed Kansas residents were testing positive at a rate of about 10%. As of Friday, the state ranked 49th in testing its residents.
The Kansas City metro area had a total of 1,544 cases, including 82 deaths, as of Saturday, according to data compiled by The Star.
In Missouri, 5,667 people had tested positive for coronavirus as of Sunday afternoon; 176 have died, according to updated data by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.
Nationwide, there are nearly 762,000 confirmed cases and more than 35,300 deaths reported as of 9:00 a.m. Monday, according to a database maintained by Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there were more than 2,420,400 cases and more than 166,200 deaths.
