Wyandotte County reported 29 new COVID-19 cases and one new death between 11:55 a.m. Friday and 1:50 p.m. Saturday, according to the Unified Government COVID-19 webpage.
Total cases increased to 1,153, and total deaths were 70 in Wyandotte County. There were 34 more recoveries for a total of 340.
On Saturday morning, the Johnson County Health Department reported a total of 642 positive cases, with a total of 56 deaths. There were 386 recoveries.
On Friday evening, Leavenworth County reported 958 positive cases. Of these, 746 were Lansing Correctional Facility inmates and 42 were Grossman Center cases, according to the Leavenworth County Health Department website. Three inmate deaths and three community deaths were reported.
Vaccine test reported
On Friday, the National Institutes of Health reported that a vaccine had been developed that had worked to protect six monkeys from pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
A trial of the vaccine began on April 23 in healthy volunteers in the United Kingdom, according to NIH. The vaccine was developed at the University of Oxford Jenner Institute.
For more information, visit https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/investigational-chadox1-ncov-19-vaccine-protects-monkeys-against-covid-19-pneumonia.
The UG’s COVID-19 webpage is at https://alpha.wycokck.org/Coronavirus-COVID-19-Information.
More information about the “red zone” rules is online at the ReStart WyCo hub at https://wyandotte-county-covid-19-hub-unifiedgov.hub.arcgis.com/pages/restartwyco.
The ReStart WyCo plan is at https://www.wycokck.org/WycoKCK/media/Health-Department/Documents/Communicable%20Disease/COVID19/RestartWYCOGuidanceDocument043020.pdf.
Several Wyandotte County pop-up testing sites are listed at https://wyandotte-county-covid-19-hub-unifiedgov.hub.arcgis.com/pages/what-to-do-if-you-think-you-have-covid-19.
The Kansas COVID-19 website is at https://covid.ks.gov/.
The Kansas COVID-19 resource page is at https://govstatus.egov.com/coronavirus.
Information from the CDC is at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/.
The number of positive COVID-19 cases in the Kansas City metro area is listed at a website sponsored by the Mid-America Regional Council at http://marc-gis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/1c93961075454558b3bf0dfad014feae.