Kansas City metro adds 250 new coronavirus cases, 5 additional deaths Monday
The Kansas City metropolitan area added 250 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total number of people infected with the virus to more than 34,700. Five additional deaths were reported.
To date, 34,749 people have been diagnosed with the virus in the metro area, which encompasses Kansas City and Jackson, Clay and Platte counties in Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. The number of deaths in the metro area is now at 483.
The seven-day rolling average for new cases in the metro sits at 276. One week ago, it was 297. Two weeks ago, it was 359.
The largest daily increase in the number of cases Monday came from Johnson County, which added 85 cases, and Kansas City, which added 73.
Kansas City continues to tally the greatest number of infections, at 10,219. In total, 97 of the city’s residents have died of the virus.
Though Johnson County sits at fewer cases than Kansas City with 9,439 residents testing positive, it continues to outpace the other metro areas in number of deaths. So far, 134 Johnson County residents have died.
There have been 6,527 reported cases in Jackson County, where 77 residents have died. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services’s COVID-19 data for Jackson, Clay and Platte counties does not include the cases discovered within Kansas City’s city limits.
In Clay County, there have been 1,624 infections and 39 deaths. There have been 576 cases and 10 deaths in Platte County.
As of Monday afternoon, Wyandotte County health officials reported 6,364 infections and 126 deaths.
On Monday, Missouri reported 104,079 cases to date, including 1,714 deaths. The seven-day positive test rate was 12%.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has reported 49,899 cases, including 534 deaths. The overall positive test rate was 10.9%. One week ago it was 10.7%.
Across the country, more than 6.5 million people have contracted the virus and more than 194,300 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University. Globally, more than 29.1 million people have tested positive for the virus and more than 925,700 have died.
