Kansas City metro reports 6 more coronavirus deaths and nearly 200 new cases Tuesday
Six more Kansas City metro residents have died of the coronavirus and another 198 have been infected, officials reported Tuesday.
To date, the virus has infected 37,141 residents, killing 516, across the region that encompasses Kansas City and Jackson, Clay and Platte counties in Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas.
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services’ COVID-19 data for Jackson, Clay and Platte counties does not include the cases discovered within Kansas City’s city limits.
The two week positive test rate was 8.96% in Kansas City, 12.41% in Jackson County and 12.4% in Johnson County.
The one week positive test rate was 11.05% in Clay County.
The overall positive test rate was 9.75% in Platte County and 17.5% in Wyandotte County.
Jackson and Johnson counties each had two more deaths while Kansas City and Wyandotte County each had one.
Twenty-four patients were hospitalized for the virus at The University of Kansas Health System, an increase of nine since Monday.
“Unfortunately we’ve had more admissions yesterday and that’s not a good thing,” said Dana Hawkinson, medical director of infection prevention and control. “We know that in the Kansas City area, in our Kansas City community, our numbers for our seven day rolling average are ticking up around 300 now. They were down almost to around 250 new cases a day but it has gone up.”
The seven-day rolling average for new cases in the metro was 302, according to data maintained by The Star. One week ago, it was 280. Two weeks ago, it was 296.
Throughout Missouri, 115,366 residents have been infected, including 1,864 who have died. The state’s positive test rate was 8.9%.
When it last reported its data Monday, Kansas had recorded 53,959 cases, including 600 deaths. The monthly positive test rate was 7.4%, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
Nationwide, the virus has infected more than 6.8 million people, killing more than 200,400, according to Johns Hopkins University.
This story was originally published September 22, 2020 at 3:56 PM.
