One new coronavirus death reported in Johnson County, nine more cases confirmed
One more death from the new coronavirus was reported in Johnson County on Monday morning.
The Johnson County Department of Health and Environment also reported nine new confirmed COVID-19 cases as of 8 a.m., bringing the total numbers to 439 infections and 39 deaths. State health officials have said less testing is often conducted on weekends.
Nursing home deaths accounted for 70% of Johnson County’s total as of Friday night.
Johnson County health officials recently released a list of local nursing facilities with COVID-19 infections, revealing 114 COVID-19 cases across 15 facilities and 26 deaths across eight facilities.
Since Sunday, 105 more negative tests were returned in Johnson County, bringing the total number of negative tests to 4,531.
Of those diagnosed in Johnson County, 132 have required hospitalization, according to county data. The number of those requiring ICU care remains at 50.
Fifty-one COVID-19 patients were hospitalized as of the last county health update given Friday. An additional 33 hospitalized patients were under investigation for coronavirus.
According to recently-released county data, Johnson County hospital beds remained at about 85% capacity for the past week. As of Friday, 121 of the county’s 252 ICU beds were available.
Twenty-nine of those who died were between the ages of 80 and 89, according to county data. The youngest person to die was an individual in their 40s. The highest concentration of cases is among Johnson County residents in their 50s.
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.
Kansas’ current stay-at-home order is effective through May 3.
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.
