Kansas City metro sees 96 new COVID-19 cases Friday and three more deaths
Nearly 100 new cases of the coronavirus were added Friday in the Kansas City metropolitan area and three more deaths were reported.
The area, consisting of Kansas City and Jackson, Clay and Platte counties in Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas, reported 96 new cases, bringing the total to 2,832.
The metro added 123 new cases on Monday, 62 on Tuesday, 49 on Wednesday and 118 on Thursday.
Wyandotte County surpassed 1,000 COVID-19 cases Friday. It has the most of any area within the metro and several outbreaks are being monitored.
Kansas has 76 clusters, according to Lee Norman, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, including 22 at long-term care facilities.
In Kansas City, an outbreak has been identified at McCrite Plaza at Briarcliff, home to 80 residents.
The new deaths were reported in Johnson County, which had two, and Jackson County, which had one. The metro area’s death total is 142.
As parts of the metro loosen restrictions, people should have a sense of personal responsibility when they go out, said Steve Stites, chief medical officer with the University of Kansas Health System.
“Pandemics are a routine part of history on our planet. It’s just that this one is new to us cause it’s been over multiple generations since we’ve felt it,” he said. “Pandemics can be beaten and the way they are beaten is by you taking good care of yourself and the way that you do that is that you wash your hands, you don’t touch your face ... you cough into your elbow, you don’t go out when you’re sick, you wear a mask.”
On Friday, Kansas reported 6,501 cases, including 152 deaths.
Missouri confirmed 9,489 cases, including 449 deaths.
