Three Kansas counties are at high COVID community level as state reports 900 new cases
Kansas saw 903 new COVID cases and 13 new deaths from April 5 to April 12, according to the latest data from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
That is a decline from last week’s 1,006 cases and the week before at 1,218.
Three Kansas counties were at the high COVID-19 community level as of Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
The CDC updates the metric each Thursday for U.S. counties and bases the assessment on the number of new cases and hospitalizations per 100,000 people (seven-day totals) and the percent of staffed hospital beds occupied by COVID-positive patients (a seven-day average).
Osborne, Mitchell and Jewell counties are at the high level. Ness, Rooks, Leavenworth and Wyandotte counties are at medium. Three counties — Wallace, Sherman and Thomas — have not reported any data.
Last week, no Kansas counties were at CDC’s high level while ten were at medium.
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COVID-19 in Sedgwick County
Sedgwick County remains at the CDC’s low community rate for another week.
The KDHE has Sedgwick County in its moderate incident rate, which means the county is experiencing 10 to 49 cases per a population of 100,000.
The county health department reports 52 new COVID cases from April 7 to April 13, according to the county’s dashboard. The most cases reported on a single day last week was 14 on April 11. The fewest was two on April 9.
The county also reported 789 negative tests that same week.
The dashboard reports that the county is experiencing a 6.64% positive test rate. Last week, the rate was at 6.27%. The rate accounts for the 14-day average of recorded positives over the total number administered and does not include at-home tests and those not reported to the Sedgwick County Health Department.
See Sedgwick County’s COVID dashboard below, which updates every Friday with the latest data.
