COVID-19 update

COVID-19 update

HERE ON KMBC, AND WE WILL HAVEUPDATES ONLINE AND ON OUR KMBC 9NEWS APP.NEW AT 4:00, THE CLAY COUNTYHEALTH DEPARTMENT HAS CONFIRMEDTHERE HAS BEEN A COVID-19OUTBREAK AT A CARE CENTER IN THECOUNTY.THE PLEASANT VALLEY MANOR CARECENTER HAS HAD 53 RESIDENTS ANDSTAFF MEMBERS TEST POSITIVE.TWO PEOPLE HAVE DIED FROM THEOUTBREAK, BUT THEY ARE SAYSPECIFICALLY WHETHER THE DEATHSWERE STAFF OR PATIENTS.THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT ISINVESTIGATING THE OUTBREAK ANDWORKING TO CONTAIN ANY SPREAD.THE STATE OF MISSOURI SAYS IT’SSEEING ITS BIGGEST INCREASE INCOVID-19 DEATHS -SINCE THE END OF MAY.TODAY THE STATE REPORTED 21 NEW, DEATHS, BRINGING THE TOTAL TO840.THE JUMP WAS THE BIGGEST SINCEMAY 30-WHEN THE STATE REPORTED 33ADDITIONAL DEATHS.ONLY 23 OF THOSE CASES HAVE BEENPEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF50 YEARS OLD.MEANWHILE THE STATE SAYS DELAYSBY LOCAL JURISDICTIONS INREPORTING DEATHS, HAVE INFLATEDDAILY NUMBERS MULTIPLE TIMESDURING THE PANDEMIC.THE STATE OF KANSAS DOES NOTREPORT NEW NUMBERS ON TUESDAYS.THERE HAVE BEEN 236 DEATHS INTOTAL REPORTED STATEWIDE.ALSO NEW AT 4:00, THE LANSINGCORRECTIONAL FACILITY IS NOWCONSIDERED A CONTAINED SITE OFCORONAVIRUS.THAT’S ACCORDING TO THESECRETARY OF CORRECTIONS.HEALTH WORKERS AND NATIONALGUARDSMEN ARRIVED AT THEFACILITY AS THE COVID OUTBREAKESCALATED IN APRIL.LANSING HAD 926 PEOPLE WITHCONFIRMED CASES OF COROANVIRUS.855 OF THEM HAVE RECOVERED.WITH THE VIRUS CONTAINED,RESIDENTS AND STAFF ARE MOVINGFORWARD TO RESUME MANY NORMALACTIVITIES.THIS FRIDAY, THERE WILL BE FREECOVID-19 TESTING IN JOHNSONCOUNTY, KANSAS.THE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTWILL HOST THE DRIVE-THRU TESTINGAT THE COLLEGE BOULEAVRDACTIVITY CENTER -OFF SOUTH VALLEY ROAD IN OLATHE.IT’S FROM 9:00 A.M.

UNTIL 1:00P.M., OR UNTIL SUPPLIES RUN OUT.IT’S A FIRST COME-FIRST SERVEBASIS FOR ANYONE WITH OR WITHOUTSYMPTOMS.SEVERAL OTHER STATES ARE NOWSEEING A SPIKE IN CASES.IT COMES AS BUSINESSES AREREOPENING.ANDREA HAS THE DETAILS.ANDREA: CORONAVIRUS CASES ON THERISE IN 20 STATES PLUS PUERTORICO.IN ARIZONA THE STATE’S LARGESTHEALTH SYSTEM HAS NOW REACHEDCAPACITY FOR PATIENTS NEEDINGEXTERNAL LUNG MACHINES.REPORTER: WOULD YOU SAY THAT THESITUATION, RIGHT NOW, INPHOENIX, ARIZONA IS DIRE?