UPDATED NUMBERS: Scott County sees jump in positive cases to 24

Monday, April 13, 2020

Scott County saw a significant increase in cases, jumping from 15 on Sunday to 24 on Monday. New Madrid County reports 8 cases and still zero cases reported in Mississippi County.

In a weekly report issued Friday afternoon, Missouri Delta Medical Center said they have had 6 positive tests with 207 negatives while 21 are pending. They have testing sites at the Benton Community Center, Chaffee Medical Clinic, Charleston Community Care Center, Dexter Community Care Center, Express Care in Sikeston, New Madrid Community Care Center and the Portageville Community Care Center.

In the Missouri Delta Medical Center Inpatient COVID ICU Unit, as of Friday, they have one patient positive and five persons under investigation. Thirty have been negative.

The number of positive cases in other local counties are:

Bollinger 3

Butler 16

Cape Girardeau 30

Dunklin 16

Pemiscot 4

Stoddard 11

Only one death has been reported in any of these counties and that occurred in Cape County last week.

According to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Monday afternoon, there are 4,388 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Missouri with 114 deaths being reported. There have been over 45,000 tests conducted in Missouri.

The coronavirus is killing black Missourians at a disproportionate rate, especially in the two urban areas of the state, prompting some local African American leaders to question if outreach is falling short.

The St. Louis Health Department on Sunday night announced the deaths of two black men, one in his 50s and one in his 60s. Of the 19 people in St. Louis who died from COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, 16 were black, one white and one Hispanic. The race of one person was unknown. St. Louis is nearly evenly split between black and white residents.

Blacks have accounted for 20 of the 42 deaths in St. Louis County, while 14 victims were white and no race was listed for eight others, according to data on the county health department's website. About one-quarter of St. Louis County residents are black.

Kansas City — Missouri's largest city — has reported eight deaths from the coronavirus, including five black residents, two whites and one whose raced was cited as "other" by the local health agency. About 29% of Kansas City residents are black.

The health department does not provide a racial breakdown for coronavirus cases or deaths, noting that about 40% of medical providers were not reporting that information.

Johns Hopkins University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering, which has been tracking COVID-19 cases worldwide, reported Monday that Missouri has had 4,272 cases of the disease, including 118 deaths.

— The Associated Press contributed to this report

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