Eight more coronavirus cases in Wyandotte County, with 573 infections reported so far
Eight additional cases of the new coronavirus were reported in Wyandotte County on Monday morning.
The number of COVID-19 deaths in the county remained at 51, according to county health department data.
In total, 573 people have tested positive for the disease as the county continues to see the highest number of positive coronavirus cases in Kansas. State health officials have said less testing is often conducted on weekends.
More than 110 people had recovered while 28 remained hospitalized, according to county data.
The largest COVID-19 outbreak in the county is focused at Riverbend Post Acute Rehabilitation Center in Kansas City, Kansas, where at least 28 residents have died since the first death linked to the facility occurred on April 5. At least 128 confirmed cases are linked to the facility.
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.
Across Kansas, 3,174 have tested positive and 118 have died from the coronavirus, according to the latest statistics, updated by the Kansas Department of Health and the Environment.
As of Monday, the state continued to rank last in per capita testing of its residents, according to the Coronavirus API Public Health Initiative, which gathers data from state health websites.
The Kansas City metro area had a total of 1,893 cases, including 114 deaths, as of Sunday, according to data compiled by The Star.
As of Sunday, Missouri has reported 6,997 cases and 274 deaths. More than half of the cases confirmed across the state were reported in the St. Louis region, with 3,801 cases and 177 deaths in the county and city combined.
Missouri has reported more cases than Kansas but has also tested more people.
Nationwide, there are nearly 966,000 confirmed cases and almost 45,900 deaths reported as of 9:00 a.m. Monday, according to a database maintained by Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there were nearly 2,990,600 cases and more than 207,400 deaths.
This story was originally published April 27, 2020 at 9:39 AM.
