KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A day after state and local health departments in Kansas combined to set the state’s single-day record for the number of new COVID-19 cases in the state and the Kansas City area, Missouri set a similar record on Tuesday.
Local and state health departments across Missouri combined Tuesday to add 3,321 new COVID-19 cases. That’s a new high-water mark for single-day reporting, which previously stood at 3,280, a figure set just a few days ago on Oct. 30, according to a 41 Action News data analysis.
The record day pushes the state’s total 199,547 cases, just a few hundred cases shy of 200,000 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Health departments also combined to add 37 new deaths to the state’s total, which now stands at 3,199.
On the Kansas side, local health departments combined to add 280 new cases, pushing the state’s total to 90,559. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment does not report new COVID-19 cases on Tuesdays. Five additional deaths were added to the state’s total Tuesday, which now stands at 1,051.
In the Kansas City area, health departments primarily on the Missouri side combined to add 346 new cases to the metro’s total, which now stands at 60,984. A new batch of deaths reported in Kansas City, Missouri, and Johnson County, Kansas, added 11 new deaths to the metro’s total, which now stands at 865.
