Kansas City metro reports at least 280 new coronavirus cases, nine more deaths Tuesday
The Kansas City metropolitan area added 280 COVID-19 cases Tuesday, bringing the total number of people infected with the virus to more than 35,000.
Nine more deaths were reported.
To date, at least 35,029 people have been infected with the coronavirus in the metro area, which encompasses Kansas City and Jackson, Clay and Platte counties in Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. The total number of deaths in the metro area is now at 492.
The seven-day rolling average for new cases in the metro sits at 280. One week ago, it was 296. Two weeks ago, it was 366.
The largest daily increase in the number of cases Tuesday came from Johnson County, which added 106 cases, nearly double the number of new cases reported the day before. Jackson County added 82; Kansas City added 31.
Kansas City continues to tally the greatest number of infections, at 10,250. In total, at least 99 of the city’s residents have died of the virus.
Though Johnson County sits at fewer cases than Kansas City with 9,545 residents testing positive, it continues to outpace the other metro areas in number of deaths. So far, 138 Johnson County residents have died. Four of the nine new deaths reported Tuesday were out of the Kansas county. Three were out of Wyandotte County and the other two were out of Kansas City.
There have been 6,609 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 1,642 infections and 39 deaths. There have been 583 cases and 10 deaths in Platte County.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Wyandotte County health officials reported 6,400 infections and 129 deaths.
On Tuesday, Missouri reported 105,396 cases to date, including 1,732 deaths. The seven-day positive test rate was 12.3%.
When Kansas last updated its numbers Monday, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment 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, nearly 6.6 million people have contracted the virus and roughly 195,400 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University. Globally, more than 29.3 million people have tested positive for the virus and more than 930,500 have died.
