Wyandotte, Johnson counties report new coronavirus cases Wednesday
Nine more cases of the new coronavirus were reported in Wyandotte County Wednesday morning. Six more cases were reported in Johnson County. Neither county reported any new deaths.
Wyandotte County, which has the largest number of confirmed cases in the state, now totals 590 cases and 53 deaths, according to the county’s public health department.
More than 131 people in the county have recovered while 34 remained hospitalized.
Johnson county now has 452 confirmed cases of the infection and remains at 40 deaths, according to the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment.
Johnson County has the third-highest number of cases in the state. The county has reported 4,882 negative test results returned. Since Monday, 364 test results have been reported from the county.
Of those diagnosed in Johnson County, 137 have required hospitalization, according to county data. Fifty-one have required ICU care.
According to recently-released county data, Johnson County hospital beds remained at about 85% capacity for the past week. As of Tuesday afternoon, 127 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, 3,491 have tested positive and 124 have died from the coronavirus, according to the latest statistics, provided at 9 a.m. Tuesday by the Kansas Department of Health and the Environment. At least 504 people have been admitted to the hospital.
With 24,599 negative tests returned, the figures show Kansas residents are testing positive at a rate of more than 12%. That’s higher than in past weeks, when residents were testing positive at rates of 10% or lower.
As of Wednesday, 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 1,946 cases, including 119 deaths, as of Tuesday, according to data compiled by The Star.
In Missouri, 7,303 people had tested positive for coronavirus as of Tuesday afternoon. At least 314 have died, according to updated data by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.
Missouri has reported more cases than Kansas but has also tested more people.
The United States surpassed 1,014,500 confirmed cases and more than 58,400 deaths reported as of 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, according to a database maintained by Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there were more than 3,141,900 cases and more than 218,400 deaths.
