Two new COVID-19 deaths, 63 additional cases reported in Kansas City metro
Sixty-three new cases of the coronavirus and two more COVID-19 related deaths were reported in the Kansas City area on Saturday, according to statistics from state health agencies.
The area, which consists of Kansas City and Jackson, Clay and Platte counties in Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas, now counts 3,259 cases and 160 deaths.
The metro added 64 new cases Friday and 46 on Thursday.
Kansas City accounted for 15 of those new cases cases, bringing the city’s total to 863 cases. Jackson and Clay counties added seven and five cases, respectively, for a total of 432 cases in Jackson County and 642 in Clay County. Platte County removed a case from its list, bringing the total down to 53 cases.
In Missouri, 10,675 coronavirus cases have been reported and 589 people have died. As of Friday, 139,340 patients were tested in the state.
On the Kansas side, eight new cases were reported in Johnson County and 29 were reported in Wyandotte County. Both Johnson and Wyandotte counties also reported one new death, bringing the total to 160.
Kansas on Friday reported 7,886 cases and 172 deaths. The state updates its coronavirus numbers on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Nationwide, more than 1.4 million cases have been reported and more than 88,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University.
This story was originally published May 16, 2020 at 4:24 PM.
