COVID-19 LIVE UPDATES: Missouri reports 1,232 new coronavirus cases Sunday
Here are the latest COVID-19 updates in the Kansas City metro area
Here are the latest COVID-19 updates in the Kansas City metro area
Here are the latest COVID-19 updates in the Kansas City metro area
Kansas City metro area health officials are grappling with how to handle continuing case count increases after reopening businesses more than a month ago.
What you need to know:
- The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Friday the state has 45,220 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and there have been 481 deaths since the outbreak started. Kansas is now only updating COVID-19 data on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
- The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said Sunday that 1,658 deaths have been attributed to COVID-19 in the state and there are 93,434 confirmed cases since the outbreak started.
SUNDAY
4:30 p.m. -- The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 1,232 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the statewide total to 93,434 since the start of the outbreak.
There have now been 1,658 deaths across Missouri from COVID-19, which is up 19 from Saturday's total. DHSS said additional COVID-19-associated deaths were identified after thorough analysis and evaluation.
"In addition to death reports received in the past 24 hours, DHSS will be reporting an additional 17 deaths today, most of which occurred June-August," DHSS officials said.
Health officials said 966 (+14) patients have been hospitalized due to COVID-19. Due to a change in data measures and the reporting platform issued by the White House on July 13, data on hospitalization reflects a 72-hour delay.
Missouri does not list how many people have recovered from COVID-19.
[ MISSOURI COVID-19 DASHBOARD]
The state said it has tested a total of 1,045,843 people through PCR testing – a test that looks for the virus in the nose, throat or other areas of the respiratory tract to determine if there is an active infection – and 8.8% of those were positive. The seven-day percent positive of PCR tested individuals is 13.8%
The state said it has tested 70,006 people through serology testing – a test that looks for antibodies in the blood – and 4.4% of those were positive.
The DHSS reports 9,720 (+75) confirmed COVID-19 cases in Kansas City, Missouri, while Jackson County now has 6,002 (+60) cases since the outbreak started. Health officials said there have been 94 (+6) deaths in Kansas City, and Jackson County reports 74 (+2) total.
The state also lists 1,493 (+12) total cases in Clay County (outside of Kansas City), 1,138 (+7) in Cass County and 526 (+2) in Platte County.
SATURDAY
6:30 p.m. -- The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 1,987 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the statewide total to 92,202 since the start of the outbreak.
There have now been 1,639 deaths across Missouri from COVID-19, which is up 77 from Friday's total. DHSS said additional COVID-19-associated deaths were identified after thorough analysis and evaluation.
"Through continuing efforts to ensure data transparency and quality, DHSS analysts discovered an inconsistency in death certificate diagnosis codes when compared to case information contained in DHSS disease surveillance systems," DHSS health officials said in a tweet. "In addition to death reports received in the past 24 hours, DHSS will be reporting an additional 72 deaths today, most of which occurred June-August."
Health officials said 952 (+0) patients have been hospitalized due to COVID-19. Due to a change in data measures and the reporting platform issued by the White House on July 13, data on hospitalization reflects a 72-hour delay.
Missouri does not list how many people have recovered from COVID-19.
[ MISSOURI COVID-19 DASHBOARD]
The state said it has tested a total of 1,038,301 people through PCR testing – a test that looks for the virus in the nose, throat or other areas of the respiratory tract to determine if there is an active infection – and 8.7% of those were positive. The seven-day percent positive of PCR tested individuals is 13.3%
The state said it has tested 69,847 people through serology testing – a test that looks for antibodies in the blood – and 4.4% of those were positive.
The DHSS reports 9,645 (+66) confirmed COVID-19 cases in Kansas City, Missouri, while Jackson County now has 5,942 (+123) cases since the outbreak started. Health officials said there have been 88 (+14) deaths in Kansas City, and Jackson County reports 72 (+8) total.
The state also lists 1,481 (+26) total cases in Clay County (outside of Kansas City), 1,131 (+9) in Cass County and 524 (+14) in Platte County.
FRIDAY
3:30 p.m. -- The Hickman Mills School District said the Ruskin High School football will not take part in the non-conference game against Belton High School Friday night. The school district said the decision was made out an abundance of caution for the health and safety of the players, coaches and fans.
2:35 p.m. -- The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 1,605 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the statewide total to 90,215 since the start of the outbreak.
There have now been 1,562 deaths across Missouri from COVID-19, which is up 17 from Thursday's total.
Health officials said 952 (+62) patients have been hospitalized due to COVID-19. Due to a change in data measures and the reporting platform issued by the White House on July 13, data on hospitalization reflects a 72-hour delay.
Missouri does not list how many people have recovered from COVID-19.
[ MISSOURI COVID-19 DASHBOARD]
The state said it has tested a total of 1,021,730 people through PCR testing – a test that looks for the virus in the nose, throat or other areas of the respiratory tract to determine if there is an active infection – and 8.7% of those were positive. The seven-day percent positive of PCR tested individuals is 13%
The state said it has tested 69,634 people through serology testing – a test that looks for antibodies in the blood – and 4.3% of those were positive.
The DHSS reports 9,579 (+59) confirmed COVID-19 cases in Kansas City, Missouri, while Jackson County now has 5,819 (+46) cases since the outbreak started. Health officials said there have been 74 (+2) deaths in Kansas City, and Jackson County reports 64 (0) total.
The state also lists 1,455 (+12) total cases in Clay County (outside of Kansas City), 1,122 (+14) in Cass County and 510 (+2) in Platte County.
12:45 p.m. -- The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported an increase of 1,280 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in its first update since Wednesday to push the statewide total to 45,220 since the outbreak started.
DHE officials said the death total grew by 23 on Friday to 481, and the average median age of the deaths is 79, which is steady from last week’s reporting.
Health officials said Friday that 2,415 patients have been hospitalized since the start of the outbreak, 661 were admitted to the ICU, 211 required mechanical ventilation and 1,785 patients have been discharged. The state also said it has 38% of its ICU beds available and 81% of its ventilators available.
The state said it has tested 427,205 (+7,958) people with 381,985 negative test results, an overall positive test rate of 10.6%, and it is testing 146.64 per 1,000 people in Kansas.
[ KANSAS COVID-19 COVID-19 DASHBOARD ]
Johnson County continues to have the most confirmed cases in Kansas with 8,695. Sedgwick County is the county with the second most cases with 7,550. Wyandotte County is third with 6,280 cases.
Leavenworth County – home to Lansing Correctional Facility – has 1,750 cases, and Douglas County now reports 1,480. The Douglas County case count is largely tied to increases at the University of Kansas.
Health officials said the median age of people with COVID-19 is 38, and they are monitoring 181 (+3) active outbreak clusters.
The state of Kansas isn’t officially listing the number of people who have recovered from COVID-19, but local health departments across the state are keeping track. According to numbers from Wednesday afternoon, there have been 27,998 people who have recovered from the coronavirus.
8 a.m. -- Johnson County health officials reported 8,522 positive COVID-19 cases in the county Friday since that start of the pandemic -- up 97 cases from Thursday. The county also reported two more deaths associated with coronavirus, taking the county death toll to 120.
The county said it has 5,518 presumed recoveries since the start of the outbreak. It also has tested 106,534 people with 100,295 negative tests for an overall positive test rate of 8.0%. The county said it has tested 176.8 people per 1,000 in the county.
As of Friday morning, the school reopening gating criteria – the 14-day rolling total used by the county to make recommendations on how schools should reopen – changed to 11.6%. The gating criteria also listed 120.5 cases per 100,000 people in the county over the last seven days -- down from Thursday -- and the new cases trend is increasing, per the county.
Johnson County health officials lost access to hospital bed utilization in June and have not reported those numbers since June 19.
THURSDAY
7:15 p.m. -- Wyandotte County reported 6,032 (+45) confirmed cases of COVID-19 Thursday since the outbreak started, with 34 patients currently hospitalized. The county said 117 (+2) people have died from the coronavirus since the start of the outbreak.
4:50 p.m. -- Health officials in Douglas County, Kansas have issued a new health order requiring restaurants, bars, entertainment venues with a liquor license to stop serving alcohol at 9 p.m. The new health order takes effect Friday. READ MORE.
2:20 p.m. -- The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 1,397 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the statewide total to 88,610 since the start of the outbreak.
There have now been 1,545 deaths across Missouri from COVID-19, which is up three from Wednesday's total.
Health officials said 890 (-44) patients have been hospitalized due to COVID-19. Due to a change in data measures and the reporting platform issued by the White House on July 13, data on hospitalization reflects a 72-hour delay.
The state said the average age of people with COVID-19 in Missouri is 42 years old and 38 is the average age of the last seven days. The state of Missouri does not list how many people have recovered from COVID-19.
[ MISSOURI COVID-19 DASHBOARD]
The state said it has tested a total of 1,008,078 people through PCR testing – a test that looks for the virus in the nose, throat or other areas of the respiratory tract to determine if there is an active infection – and 8.7% of those were positive. The seven-day percent positive of PCR tested individuals is 12.9%
The state said it has tested 69,430 people through serology testing – a test that looks for antibodies in the blood – and 4.3% of those were positive.
The DHSS reports 9,520 (+96) confirmed COVID-19 cases in Kansas City, Missouri, while Jackson County now has 5,773 (+66) cases since the outbreak started. Health officials said there have been 72 (no change) deaths in Kansas City, and Jackson County reports 64 (+1) total.
The state also lists 1,443 (+31) total cases in Clay County (outside of Kansas City), 1,108 (+16) in Cass County and 508 (+13) in Platte County.
8 a.m. -- The Johnson County, Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported 8,425 (+63) cases of COVID-19 Thursday morning, since the outbreak started. The county said it has 5,612 presumed recoveries and 118 people have died since the start of the outbreak. It also has tested 105,773 people with 99,570 negative tests for an overall positive test rate of 8.0%. The county said it has tested 175.6 people per 1,000 in the county.
As of Thursday morning, the school reopening gating criteria – the 14-day rolling total used by the county to make recommendations on how schools should reopen – remained at 11.4%. The gating criteria also listed 129.7 cases per 100,000 people in the county over the last seven days -- down from Wednesday -- and the new cases trend is increasing, per the county.
Johnson County health officials lost access to hospital bed utilization in June and have not reported those numbers since June 19.
WEDNESDAY
11:30 p.m. -- Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, may have to quarantine because of COVID-19 cases.
In a message to students, the college said that it received a "surprise" order to quarantine students on Wednesday afternoon.
College representatives said they appealed to the county board, which took no action. Atchison County health officials agreed to delay the implementation of the quarantine order to meet with school officials on Thursday. READ MORE.
10 p.m. -- Two students at Ray-Pec High School have tested positive for COVID-19.
The school district said the students were already in quarantine after being exposed to a positive case and no other students or staff need to be quarantined.
4:30 p.m. -- The state of Missouri has paid a Virginia-based consulting firm another $300,000 for its work helping officials respond to the coronavirus pandemic, according to state payroll records.
The latest payment means Missouri has paid the McChrystal Group over $829,000 out of federal funds aimed a covering the costs of pandemic-related expenses. The payments come from a controversial no-bid contract that is worth $248,000 a month, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
The contract, which runs through Dec. 31, could be worth more than $1.3 million but the cost could be reduced if state employees replace company workers. A review is set for September.
The contract began June 1, less than a month after Republican Gov. Mike Parson said the the Missouri Foundation for Health would pay up to $600,000 for the company's work.
A copy of the contract shows the McChrystal Group didn't sign it until July 31 and the state didn't sign until Aug. 5.
Parson aides say the firm provides a management structure to coordinate problem solving on a pandemic issues between various state agencies and the governor’s Cabinet.
4:15 p.m. -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has told public health officials around the United States to prepare to distribute a potential coronavirus vaccine as soon as late October. It also provided planning scenarios to help states prepare. READ MORE
2:10 p.m. -- The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 1,458 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the statewide total to 87,213 since the start of the outbreak.
There have now been 1,542 deaths across Missouri from COVID-19, which is up four from Tuesday's total.
Health officials said 934 (-8) patients have been hospitalized due to COVID-19. Due to a change in data measures and the reporting platform issued by the White House on July 13, data on hospitalization reflects a 72-hour delay.
The state said the average age of people with COVID-19 in Missouri is 42 years old and 38 is the average age of the last seven days. The state of Missouri does not list how many people have recovered from COVID-19.
[ MISSOURI COVID-19 DASHBOARD]
The state said it has tested a total of 998,097 people through PCR testing – a test that looks for the virus in the nose, throat or other areas of the respiratory tract to determine if there is an active infection – and 8.6% of those were positive. The seven-day percent positive of PCR tested individuals is 12.7%
The state said it has tested 69,257 people through serology testing – a test that looks for antibodies in the blood – and 4.3% of those were positive.
The DHSS reports 9,424 (+108) confirmed COVID-19 cases in Kansas City, Missouri, while Jackson County now has 5,707 (+186) cases since the outbreak started. Health officials said there have been 72 (+1) deaths in Kansas City, and Jackson County reports 63 (+1) total.
The state also lists 1,412 (+9) total cases in Clay County (outside of Kansas City), 1,092 (+12) in Cass County and 495 (+3) in Platte County.
1:50 p.m. -- Iowa State University Athletics announced Wednesday that fans will not be allowed to attend the Cyclone football season opener on Sept. 12. On Monday, the university said it will welcome 25,000 fans to Jack Trice Stadium for the first game of the season with COVID-19 mitigation efforts in place. READ MORE
1:25 p.m. -- With nearly 700 confirmed student cases of the coronavirus at the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus, several students and organizations are facing potential discipline after being accused of violating guidelines aimed at slowing the virus's spread.
The university’s COVID-19 dashboard on Wednesday cited 683 confirmed cases since classes resumed in mid-August, including nearly 500 active cases. Most of the infected students have had mild or no symptoms. Just one student has been hospitalized.
The university is threatening to discipline students for violations such as refusing to wear masks, gathering in large groups and other actions that could hasten the spread of the virus. University spokesman Christian Basi said Wednesday that 330 alleged violations have been referred to the student accountability office. Violators face punishments ranging from a verbal reprimand to suspension or expulsion.
“If we can change the behavior in such a way that it never happens again, we should be in good shape,” Basi said. “If we see repeat offenders, we may have to go to harsher penalties.”
Basi said many of the students facing discipline were accused of gathering in large groups. Another common offense involved failing to wear a mask in public areas of dorms.
Meanwhile, 10 Greek houses have been temporarily suspended while the university investigates reports of violations, Basi said.
The university, home to around 30,000 students, has worked closely with the city of Columbia and the Columbia/Boone County Health Department, Basi said. Last week, the health department announced new guidelines, including a requirement that bars stop serving drinks at 9 p.m. and close by 10 p.m.
Other campuses across the state also are seeing outbreaks. Missouri State University in Springfield has reported 569 COVID-19 cases, including 383 last week.
Overall, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services on Tuesday reported 1,058 new confirmed cases, for a total of 85,755 since the pandemic began. Eight more deaths were confirmed, bringing the total to 1,538.
Missouri cases have risen sharply since the state reopened for business in mid-June. The Springfield News-Leader reported that the White House Coronavirus Task Force, in a report dated Aug. 16, recommended that Missouri issue a statewide mask mandate. It has not done so.
The News-Leader obtained a copy of the task force report with a public records request. The report said Missouri was in the “red zone” for the number of new cases per capita it recorded during the week prior to the report.
Republican Gov. Mike Parson has encouraged, but not required, masks. At a news conference on Tuesday, Parson said the task force mask guideline was among many that his administration has considered when deciding how to deal with the virus.
In the Kansas City area, a coalition of hospitals and businesses is urging people to wear masks and practice social distancing.
Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce CEO Joe Reardon said during a news conference that consumer spending in the region dropped by 35% in the second quarter, and small and minority-owned businesses have been especially hard-hit.
“I would say if you’re pro-business, pro-small business, if you want our schools and businesses opening and thriving, if you want our economy to continue to recover, than we all need to take personal responsibility,” Reardon said.
1 p.m. -- Colorado will spend $2 million in federal pandemic relief funding to provide internet access to students who lack service as part of an overall effort to close the digital divide in both rural and urban parts of the state as the pandemic has forced many to rely on online learning.
State education commissioner Kathy Anthes announced the plan on Wednesday, joined by Gov. Jared Polis and Attorney General Phil Weiser. School districts will be able to apply for grants to pay for hotspots to provide internet access to households as well as things like mobile hotspot trucks that may work better in rural areas, she said.
“Broadband access is now an essential school supply. It's a non negotiable,” she said at the Fort Logan Northgate School in the Sheridan School District 2 in Denver.
12:45 p.m. -- The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported an increase of 1,328 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in its first update since Monday to push the statewide total to 43,940 since the outbreak started.
DHE officials said the death total grew by 12 on Wednesday to 458, and the average median age of the deaths is 79, which is steady from Friday’s report.
Health officials said Monday that 2,361 (+57) patients have been hospitalized since the start of the outbreak, 649 (+21) were admitted to the ICU, 210 (+10) required mechanical ventilation and 1,730 (+57) patients have been discharged. The state also said it has 36% (-7%) of its ICU beds available and 81% (-3%) of its ventilators available.
The state said it has tested 419,247 (+5,998) people with 375,307 negative test results, an overall positive test rate of 10.5%, and it is testing 143.91 per 1,000 people in Kansas.
[ KANSAS COVID-19 COVID-19 DASHBOARD ]
Johnson County continues to have the most confirmed cases in Kansas with 8,495. Sedgwick County is the county with the second most cases with 7,399. Wyandotte County is third with 6,180 cases.
Leavenworth County – home to Lansing Correctional Facility – has 1,721 cases, and Douglas County now reports 1,383. The Douglas County case count is largely tied to increases at the University of Kansas.
Health officials said the median age of people with COVID-19 is 36, and they are monitoring 178 (+0) active outbreak clusters. Long-term care centers continue to be the area with the highest active clusters at 50, followed by private businesses at 35 and college/universities at 23.
The state of Kansas isn’t officially listing the number of people who have recovered from COVID-19, but local health departments across the state are keeping track. According to numbers from Wednesday afternoon, there have been 27,183 people who have recovered from the coronavirus.
11:30 a.m. -- Johnson County Department of Health and Environment Director Sanmi Areola said Wednesday during a roundtable discussion with the Shawnee Mission School District that thousands of saliva-based COVID-19 tests will be available for use in county schools as soon as next week. READ MORE
10:30 a.m. -- Amid intense pressure, the state's largest school district in Wichita has overturned its decision to call off all fall sports and activities because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Board of Education for the 50,000-student district reversed itself Tuesday after members were flooded with emails and phone calls pleading and demanding that sports be allowed to continue. The outcry included a massive demonstration at Wichita Northwest High School. Athletes also had stood outside the board's meeting space holding signs and chanting following the initial Aug. 20 cancellation decision, The Wichita Eagle reports.
The board's decisions to proceed will require that participants agree to remote learning during the season of their sport or activity and for two weeks following. However, all sixth- through 12th-grade students in the district already were beginning the year online only.
District schools will only compete against each other during the regular season but would remain eligible for postseason play.
Some of the state's other large districts also have called off fall sports - including Shawnee Mission and Kansas City, Kansas.
10 a.m. -- The Chief Medical Officers for eight Kansas City-area hospitals, plus school and chamber of commerce representatives are joining together on a single call right now with an "urgent briefing on COVID-19."
Participants in the briefing include:
- Dr. Raghu Adiga – Chief Medical Officer, Liberty Hospital
- Dr. Ahmad Batrash – Chief of Staff, Kansas City VA Medical Center
- Dr. Larry Botts – Chief Medical Officer, AdventHealth Shawnee Mission
- Dr. Mark Steele - Executive Chief Clinical Officer, Truman Medical Centers/University Health
- Dr. Jennifer Schrimsher – Infectious Disease Specialist, Lawrence Memorial Hospital
- Dr. James Stewart – Chief Medical Officer, North Kansas City Hospital
- Dr. Steven Stites – Chief Medical Officer, University of Kansas Health System
- Dr. Kimberly Beatty - Chancellor, Metropolitan Community College
- Dr. Kenny Southwick – Executive Director, Cooperating School Districts of Greater Kansas City
- Joe Reardon – President & CEO, Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce
9 a.m. -- According to a report from the Springfield News-Leader, the White House COVID-19 task force told Missouri to require masks statewide two weeks ago.
A task force report dated Aug. 16, which the News-Leader obtained with a public records request, said Missouri was again in the “red zone” for the number of new cases per capita it recorded the week before and had nearly 40 percent of counties “experiencing high levels of transmission.”
8 a.m. -- Johnson County reported Wednesday morning 8,362 (+136) cases of COVID-19 since the outbreak started. The county said it has 5,497 presumed recoveries and 118 (+1) people have died since the start of the outbreak. It also has tested 105,101 people with 98,941 negative tests for an overall positive test rate of 8.0%. The county said it has tested 174.5 people per 1,000 in the county.
As of Wednesday morning, the school reopening gating criteria – the 14-day rolling total used by the county to make recommendations on how schools should reopen – remained at 11.4%. The gating criteria also listed 138.1 cases per 100,000 people in the county over the last seven days and the new cases trend is increasing, per the county.
The county said it is monitoring 16 outbreaks at senior living care facilities. It also said that 88 (+0) people have died from senior living care facilities, which is 75% of the deaths in Johnson County.
Johnson County health officials lost access to hospital bed utilization in June and have not reported those numbers since June 19.
7:30 a.m. -- Wyandotte County is reporting Wednesday morning 5,987 (+60) confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the outbreak started, with 34 patients currently hospitalized and 121 (+1) probable cases. The county said 115 (+1) people have died from the coronavirus since the start of the outbreak.
The county updated its dashboard last week to indicate it will no longer release the number of people recovered. The dashboard said “this metric will no longer be shown due to the low data validity.”
The dashboard also updated on last week to indicate which ZIP codes have the most recent cases. Over a 14-day period the 66102 ZIP had 128 cases, followed by 66104 with 98 cases.
Wyandotte County does not list hospital capacity numbers on its dashboard.
7 a.m. -- The state of Kansas isn’t officially listing the number of people who have recovered from COVID-19, but local health departments across the state are keeping track. According to numbers from Wednesday morning, there have been 27,073 people who have recovered from the coronavirus. This includes 5,399 in Johnson County, 2,021 in Wyandotte County, 1,589 in Leavenworth County and 933 in Douglas County.
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TUESDAY
3:45 p.m. -- Four of five people who died of COVID-19 in recent days in Greene County were residents of long-term care facilities, health officials said Tuesday.
A woman in her 60s, a woman in her 70s, a woman in her 80s and two men in their 90s who all had underlying medical conditions died from the virus, the Springfield-Greene County health department said in a news release.
The department did not provide further details, including which of the five was not a resident of a long-term care facility.
The county has recorded 35 COVID-19 deaths, with a majority reported in August. A total of 3,248 cases have been confirmed in the county,
State health officials on Tuesday reported 1,058 newly confirmed cases, for a total of 85,755 since the pandemic began. Eight more deaths were confirmed, bringing the total to 1,538.
2:15 p.m. -- The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 1,058 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the statewide total to 85,755 since the start of the outbreak.
There have now been 1,538 deaths across Missouri from COVID-19, which is up eight from Monday’s total.
Health officials said 942 (-62) patients have been hospitalized due to COVID-19. Due to a change in data measures and the reporting platform issued by the White House on July 13, data on hospitalization reflects a 72-hour delay.
The state said the average age of people with COVID-19 in Missouri is 42 years old and 38 is the average age of the last seven days. The state of Missouri does not list how many people have recovered from COVID-19.
[ MISSOURI COVID-19 DASHBOARD]
The state said it has tested a total of 991,244 people through PCR testing – a test that looks for the virus in the nose, throat or other areas of the respiratory tract to determine if there is an active infection – and 8.6% of those were positive. The seven-day percent positive of PCR tested individuals is 12.5%
The state said it has tested 69,005 people through serology testing – a test that looks for antibodies in the blood – and 4.2% of those were positive.
The DHSS reports 9,316 (+21) confirmed COVID-19 cases in Kansas City, Missouri, while Jackson County now has 5,521 (+85) cases since the outbreak started. Health officials said there have been 71 (+2_ deaths in Kansas City, and Jackson County reports 62 (+1) total.
The state also lists 1,403 (+22) total cases in Clay County (outside of Kansas City), 1,080 (+5) in Cass County and 492 (+15) in Platte County.
1:03 p.m. -- A liberal arts college in Colorado has announced that hundreds of students are now in quarantine after 10 students tested positive for the coronavirus at the Colorado Springs campus, officials said.
Colorado College announced that two dorms, Mathias Hall and South Hall, were placed under quarantine Saturday, less than a week after the school opened for the semester Aug. 24, The Gazette reported.
College spokeswoman Leslie Weddell said 225 students were checked in at Mathias Hall and 213 students were checked in at South Hall for the semester. Some have left to quarantine at home.
El Paso County Public Health recommended the quarantine, which will remain in effect until Sept. 12, officials said. The 10 students who contracted the virus are in isolation.
12:30 p.m. -- University of Kansas athletes must play without fans, Kansas State University is battling four new coronavirus outbreaks and a Topeka-area school district has halted in-person classes just days into the fall semester.
Kansas Department of Health and Environment has reported 19 coronavirus clusters tied to colleges and five related to public schools since the start of the academic year.
The University of Kansas said Monday that athletes must play without fans at least through the end of September. The announcement came after compulsory testing of students arriving on campus uncovered 474 positive cases. Infections were particularly prevalent among sorority and fraternity members, with 270 positives among 2,698 members tested - a 10% positivity rate.
“Our football, volleyball, soccer and cross country contests will not be the same without you there. But this is the right decision for our community at this time," Chancellor Douglas Girod said in a news release. “We will continue to evaluate safety conditions with the hope that we can welcome fans to athletics events after September."
The four newest outbreaks in the Manhattan area included a cluster of 10 positive cases among the Kansas State football team, health officials said Monday. The other outbreaks were tied to the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and the Pi Beta Phi sorority. These outbreaks came in addition to outbreaks already reported at six other fraternities and sororities involving 53 members, The Manhattan Mercury reported.
In the Topeka area, the Silver Lake district temporarily shifted to virtual instruction after several non-teaching staff tested positive for COVID-19, hampering the district's ability to properly clean the buildings, superintendent Tim Hallacy said on Facebook Monday. Hallacy said the district does not know of any cases among teachers or students.
Statewide, Kansas reported 1,564 new COVID-19 cases from Friday to Monday, bringing the state's confirmed total to 42,612. Health officials also reported an additional three COVID-19-related deaths for a statewide death toll of 446.
Noon -- District officials confirmed to KMBC 9 News that the remainder of the Center High School volleyball team’s season has been canceled due to positive COVID-19 cases. The Yellowjackets’ first match was scheduled for Sept. 15 at Van Horn High School, followed by a tournament on Sept. 19 at William Chrisman. Before the announcement by the district, three other matches were already canceled on Center’s schedule. READ MORE
10:30 a.m. -- Johnson County reported Tuesday morning 8,226 (+84) cases of COVID-19 since the outbreak started. The county said it has 5,399 presumed recoveries and 117 (+1) people have died since the start of the outbreak. It also has tested 104,054 (+660) people with 97,980 negative tests for an overall positive test rate of 7.9%. The county said it has tested 172.7 people per 1,000 in the county.
As of Tuesday morning, the school reopening gating criteria – the 14-day rolling total used by the county to make recommendations on how schools should reopen – moved to 11.4%. The gating criteria also listed 135.3 cases per 100,000 people in the county over the last seven days and the new cases trend is increasing, per the county.
The county said it is monitoring 16 outbreaks at senior living care facilities. It also said that 88 (+1) people have died from senior living care facilities, which is 75% of the deaths in Johnson County.
Johnson County health officials lost access to hospital bed utilization in June and have not reported those numbers since June 19.
8:30 a.m. -- Wyandotte County is reporting Tuesday morning 5,927 (+2) confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the outbreak started, with 34 patients currently hospitalized and 120 (+6) probable cases. The county said 114 (+1) people have died from the coronavirus since the start of the outbreak.
The county updated its dashboard last week to indicate it will no longer release the number of people recovered. The dashboard said “this metric will no longer be shown due to the low data validity.”
The dashboard also updated on last week to indicate which ZIP codes have the highest case rates. The 66105 ZIP code is the most impacted area, followed by 66102, 66101 and 661034.
Wyandotte County does not list hospital capacity numbers on its dashboard.
7:33 a.m. -- Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is urging local officials to consider using part of their federal coronavirus assistance to pay for more drop-off boxes for mail-in ballots. Kelly said during a Monday press conference that adding drop-off boxes would help keep Kansans safe from COVID-19 and relieve pressure on the postal service. READ MORE
6:30 a.m. -- The University of Arkansas on Monday reported 151 more confirmed cases of coronavirus at its campus in Fayetteville and a White House report said the state continued to have one of the highest rates of positive tests in the country.
The new infections reported at the university over the weekend brings its total number of active cases to 222 and comes days after the state's top health official expressed concerns about outbreaks at Arkansas' college campuses.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson earlier Monday said he believed the state's colleges had a good plan in place to continue in-person instruction if students follow the guidelines.
6:15 a.m. -- The state of Kansas isn’t officially listing the number of people who have recovered from COVID-19, but local health departments across the state are keeping track. According to numbers from Tuesday morning, there have been 26,783 people who have recovered from the coronavirus. This includes 5,328 in Johnson County, 2,021 in Wyandotte County, 1,589 in Leavenworth County and 910 in Douglas County.
6 a.m. -- The executive board of the teachers union on Monday told union officials to continue negotiations with New York City over a school reopening plan, but that they could authorize a strike vote if no agreement had been reached by Tuesday afternoon.
New York City has issued a hybrid plan for the 1.1 million children in its schools for the academic year starting Sept. 10.
The United Federation of Teachers union has said there are safety concerns that need to be addressed in any reopening plan, and that it was prepared to go to court or on strike, even though New York state bars teachers and other public employees from striking.
The union's executive board said the union negotiators were to bring a successful agreement with the city to a union Delegate Assembly scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, or they were authorized to call for a strike vote.
“We can’t afford to send students and staff back into any buildings until we have done everything possible - including a rigorous virus testing program - to see that they are safe," UFT President Michael Mulgrew said in a statement. “The members of the UFT know that public employee strikes are illegal, but we are determined to do what is necessary to protect our students and the families of New York City.”
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3:31 p.m. -- Missouri schools ranging from universities to a kindergarten continue to grapple with an increase in COVID-19 cases as classes resume.
The University of Missouri reported Monday that it had 415 active cases of COVID-19 on campus, an increase from the 306 reported Friday after the first week of on-campus classes.
The university reported faculty and staff cases for the first time Monday, with four faculty members and 21 staff having contracted the virus. Those numbers rely on self-reporting, while student numbers are gathered from the local health department, KMIZ reported.
Missouri State University in Springfield said it had 383 confirmed cases of COVID-19 during the second week of classes that ended Friday, more than double the 141 reported the week after classes started Aug. 17, The Springfield News Leader reported.
The overwhelming majority of the cases were students. About 20 percent of the latest confirmed cases live on campus and the rest live off campus, said David Hall, director of university safety.
And officials in the Webb City school district near Joplin closed a kindergarten center as 10 of its 24 staff members - but no students - tested positive for COVID-19. The Madge T. James Kindergarten Center, with 200 students, is expected to reopen Sept. 8.
Missouri reported 84,697 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Monday, an increase of more than 1,000 from Sunday. The state also has confirmed 1,530 deaths, 22 more than reported on Sunday
2:15 p.m. -- The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 1,042 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the statewide total to 84,697 since the start of the outbreak.
There have now been 1,530 deaths across Missouri from COVID-19, which is up 22 from Sunday’s total.
Health officials said 1,004 patients have been hospitalized due to COVID-19. Due to a change in data measures and the reporting platform issued by the White House on July 13, data on hospitalization reflects a 72-hour delay.
The state of Missouri does not list how many people have recovered from COVID-19.
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The state said it has tested a total of 982,955 people through PCR testing – a test that looks for the virus in the nose, throat or other areas of the respiratory tract to determine if there is an active infection – and 8.5% of those were positive. The seven-day percent positive of PCR tested individuals is 12.6%
The state said it has tested 68,924 people through serology testing – a test that looks for antibodies in the blood – and 4.2% of those were positive.
The DHSS reports 9,295 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Kansas City, Missouri, while Jackson County now has 5,521 cases since the outbreak started. Health officials said there have been 69 deaths in Kansas City, and Jackson County reports 61 total.
The state also lists 1,381 total cases in Clay County (outside of Kansas City), 1,075 in Cass County and 477 in Platte County.
1:05 p.m. -- Iowa State University officials said Monday that approximately 25,000 fans will be allowed to attend the first football game of the season against Louisiana on Sept. 12. The news comes as the New York Times listed Ames, Iowa, as having the most coronavirus cases in relation to their population in the past two weeks. READ MORE
12:45 p.m. -- The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported an increase of 1,564 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in its first update since Friday to push the statewide total to 42,612 since the outbreak started.
DHE officials said the death total grew by three on Monday to 446, and the average median age of the deaths is 79, which is steady from Friday’s report.
Health officials said Monday that 2,304 (+26) patients have been hospitalized since the start of the outbreak, 628 (+12) were admitted to the ICU, 209 (+3) required mechanical ventilation and 1,673 (+49) patients have been discharged. The state also said it has 43% (+6%) of its ICU beds available and 84% (+2%) of its ventilators available.
The state said it has tested 413,249 (+10,102) people with 370,637 negative test results, an overall positive test rate of 10.3%, and it is testing 141.85 per 1,000 people in Kansas.
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Johnson County continues to have the most confirmed cases in Kansas with 8,240. Sedgwick County is the county with the second most cases with 7,306. Wyandotte County is third with 6,108 cases.
Leavenworth County – home to Lansing Correctional Facility – has 1,674 cases, and Douglas County now reports 1,277. The Douglas County case count is largely tied to increases at the University of Kansas.
Health officials said the median age of people with COVID-19 is 36, and they are monitoring 178 (+8) active outbreak clusters. Long-term care centers continue to be the area with the highest active clusters at 48, followed by private businesses at 38 and college/universities at 18.
The state of Kansas isn’t officially listing the number of people who have recovered from COVID-19, but local health departments across the state are keeping track. According to numbers from Monday afternoon, there have been 26,471 people who have recovered from the coronavirus.
11:45 a.m. -- The Missouri State University posted 383 cases of COVID-19 in the last seven days of testing, according to a report from KY 3 in Springfield.
Medical personnel tested 752 Missouri State University students last week. Since students returned on Aug. 16, the school reports 562 positive cases.
Missouri State has established a COVID‑19 Response Team working closely with the Springfield-Greene County Health Department to assist with contact tracing for individuals affiliated with campus who have tested positive.
9:15 a.m. -- The University of Kansas Health System reported Monday a rise in COVID-19 cases. Health officials say 62 people are being treated for the virus at the hospital and 36 of them are dealing with severe symptoms of COVID-19. The hospital also said nine are in the ICU and three are on ventilators. Doctors say they saw a surge in acute cases this weekend.
"COVID is real,” Dr. Steven Stites said. “And the complications of COVID are real and you know. The average length of stay is eight days or seven days among those who are coming in acutely. But when you think about the people who are still here afterwards, it goes up a little bit. There are 62 patients in the hospital with one disease right now. It just never ends. I've been I've been here for 30 years that never happened.”
9 a.m. -- The rate of positive tests in Missouri keeps climbing. It’s at 13.7% now after Sunday’s new numbers. That’s well above the national average, which are now less than 6%. More than 11% of tests in Kansas are coming back positive.
8:50 a.m. -- The Kansas City Health Department said the walk-up portion of Monday’s COVID-19 testing event at Friendship Baptist Church has been canceled due to lightning. Health officials said they will still honor appointments from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., weather permitting.
8:30 a.m. -- Wyandotte County is reporting Monday morning 5,925 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the outbreak started, with 34 patients currently hospitalized and 116 probable cases. The county said 113 people have died from the coronavirus since the start of the outbreak.
The county updated its dashboard last week to indicate it will no longer release the number of people recovered. The dashboard said “this metric will no longer be shown due to the low data validity.”
The dashboard also updated on last week to indicate which ZIP codes have the highest case rates. The 66105 ZIP code is the most impacted area, followed by 66102, 66101 and 661034.
Wyandotte County does not list hospital capacity numbers on its dashboard.
8 a.m. -- Johnson County reported Monday morning 8,142 cases of COVID-19 since the outbreak started. The county said it has 5,328 presumed recoveries and 116 people have died since the start of the outbreak. It also has tested 103,394 people with 97,352 negative tests for an overall positive test rate of 7.9%. The county said it has tested 171.6 people per 1,000 in the county.
As of Monday morning, the school reopening gating criteria – the 14-day rolling total used by the county to make recommendations on how schools should reopen – moved to 11.2%. The gating criteria also listed 136.6 cases per 100,000 people in the county over the last seven days and the new cases trend is increasing, per the county.
The county said it is monitoring 16 outbreaks at senior living care facilities. It also said that 87 people have died from senior living care facilities, which is 75% of the deaths in Johnson County.
Johnson County health officials lost access to hospital bed utilization in June and have not reported those numbers since June 19.
7 a.m. -- The state of Kansas isn’t officially listing the number of people who have recovered from COVID-19, but local health departments across the state are keeping track. According to numbers from Monday morning, there have been 26,395 people who have recovered from the coronavirus. This includes 5,226 in Johnson County, 2,021 in Wyandotte County, 1,558 in Leavenworth County and 869 in Douglas County.
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The Associated Press contributed to this story.