137 new COVID-19 cases confirmed in Kansas as statewide total nears 2,000
Eight more people have died from the new coronavirus in Kansas, bringing the total number of deaths to 100, officials said Monday as the number of confirmed infections statewide neared 2,000.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced 137 new confirmed cases of COVID-19; 1,986 have been diagnosed with the disease as of 11 a.m. Monday. State officials have said less testing is often done on weekends.
With 16,775 negative tests returned, Kansas residents are testing positive at a rate of about 11%. as of Monday. On Friday, the state ranked 49th in testing its residents.
The average age of individuals testing positive is 51, state data shows. The youngest victim is an infant and the oldest is 99.
Of those diagnosed, 405 have been hospitalized. The average age of those hospitalized is 64.
Wyandotte County shoulders the largest load of cases in Kansas, with 427 people positive tests, according to state data. Thirty-eight have died, according to county health officials.
The other largest groups of cases are centralized in Johnson and Sedgwick counties.
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.
Nationwide, there are more than 749,600 confirmed cases and more than 35,000 deaths reported as of 1:30 p.m. Monday, according to a database maintained by Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there were more than 2,440,500 cases and nearly 167,600 deaths.
