Positive COVID-19 cases were up to 147 in Wyandotte County at 11:10 a.m. Saturday, April 4, according to the Unified Government’s COVID-19 website. There were 139 cases in Wyandotte County on Friday evening, according to the UG’s website.
The website reported that there were 42 Wyandotte County residents hospitalized with COVID-19 on Saturday morning. The number of deaths here remained at six. Also, the number of self-reporting responses was 141 with 52 probable self-reporting cases, according to the UG’s COVID-19 website.
Kansas numbers totaled 698 positive cases on Saturday morning, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment website. There were 78 additional cases from Friday’s total of 620.
The Kansas total included 21 statewide deaths as of Saturday, according to the KDHE website. There were a total 17 deaths as of Friday morning. There were 172 hospitalizations statewide on Saturday. The number of negative tests statewide was reported at 6,880.
KDHE reported there were 185 positive cases in Johnson County on Saturday morning. Johnson County reported a total of seven deaths, the same number as on Friday morning, according to its website.
Sedgwick County (including Wichita) had 97 positive cases, Leavenworth County had 33 positive cases, Douglas County (including Lawrence) had 32 positive cases and Shawnee County (including Topeka) reported 27 cases, according to KDHE figures. About 45 Kansas counties have one or more COVID-19 positive case.
On Friday night, the UG announced that law enforcement officers would start enforcing the “stay-home” orders in Wyandotte County, see https://wyandotteonline.com/police-to-step-up-enforcement-of-stay-home-order-following-rapid-rise-in-covid-19/.
Wyandotte County on Friday also announced a new clinic in a UG Health Department parking lot near 6th and Ann, where Wyandotte County residents may call in advance or use the UG’s self-reporting tool to find out if they can be tested for COVID-19. See https://wyandotteonline.com/ug-health-department-opens-covid-19-testing-site/.
A new video from April 3 by Mayor David Alvey and Dr. Charles Foust, KCKPS superintendent, is online at https://youtu.be/9rp-bn0JDmc. The video tells about the programs that are available, changes that are taking place, and also encourages residents to stay home.
To view the Kansas attorney general’s memo on guidance for law enforcement officers enforcing the new COVID-19 orders, visit https://ag.ks.gov/docs/default-source/publications/ag-memo-to-kansas-law-enforcement-and-prosecutors.pdf?sfvrsn=1979ac1a_4.
The Unified Government’s COVID-19 website is at https://www.wycokck.org/COVID-19.
To view Kansas Department of Health and Environment COVID-19 information, visit
https://public.tableau.com/profile/kdhe.epidemiology#!/vizhome/COVID-19Data_15851817634470/KSCOVID-19CaseData.
Information from the Centers for Disease Control is online at
www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/.