Coronavirus updates: Sedgwick County sees four more cases while deaths hold steady
The Eagle has compiled a list of updates from Saturday on the coronavirus pandemic for the Wichita area. For updates from Friday, click here.
New numbers in Sedgwick County
Sedgwick County reported an overnight increase of four cases, bringing the total to 534 COVID-19 cases. Deaths were unchanged at 20.
Officials have attributed 128 cases (about 24%) and 17 deaths to clusters at three long-term care facilities, Sedgwick County spokesperson Kate Flavin said Friday.
Sedgwick County has identified 10 clusters: three each at businesses, long-term care and religious facilities and one at the Wichita Work Release Facility.
Of the 534 cases, 358 people are considered recovered, meaning it has been 72 hours after symptoms stop or seven days after symptoms start, whichever is longer.
In Sedgwick County, epidemiologists have determined about 65% of the cases had close contact with another confirmed case, about 24% are likely person-to-person (indicating community spread), roughly 8% are travel-related and about 3% are under investigation.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment stopped releasing daily numbers. Instead, the KDHE reports on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Friday’s figures show a two-day increase of 418 cases and eight deaths, bringing the totals to 7,886 cases and 172 deaths in the state. There have been at least 724 hospitalizations. Negative tests have come back 53,706 of the time, giving a positive testing rate of 12.8%.
The state has identified 94 clusters, accounting for 3,852 of the 7,886 cases (about 49%) and 120 of the 172 deaths (about 70%).
Clusters at meatpacking facilities account for 1,791 cases and four deaths. It is also attributed to about 61% of the 418-case increase, according to the KDHE.
The statewide testing rate was 21.11 per 1,000 people. Sedgwick County remains the lowest in testing per 1,000 people among nine counties with at least 100 cases.
In order from highest cases: Ford County, 1,299 cases and testing rate of 99.32; Finney County, 1,170 cases and testing rate of 63.62; Wyandotte County, 1,141 cases and testing rate of 33.88; Leavenworth County, 957 cases and testing rate of 48.51; Seward County, 753 cases and testing rate of 84.89; Johnson County 648 cases and testing rate of 18.93; Sedgwick County 512 cases (according to KDHE numbers) and testing rate of 14.68; Lyon County 355 cases and testing rate of 31.15, and Shawnee County 183 cases and testing rate of 26.56.
Discrepancies between county and state numbers can be due to confirmed cases from one health department not yet being finalized with the other, officials have said.