Saline County's COVID cases up 58.3%; Kansas cases up 4.3%

Mike Stucka USA TODAY NETWORK
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Runners prepare to compete in the Beach to Bay Relay Marathon at sunrise on Saturday, May 21, 2022. The race, which made its return after being cancelled the last two years due to COVID-19, began at JP Luby Beach and ended at McCaughn Park in Corpus Christi.
Runners prepare to compete in the Beach to Bay Relay Marathon at sunrise on Saturday, May 21, 2022. The race, which made its return after being cancelled the last two years due to COVID-19, began at JP Luby Beach and ended at McCaughn Park in Corpus Christi.

New coronavirus cases increased 4.3% in Kansas in the week ending Sunday as the state added 3,196 cases. The previous week had 3,063 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19.

Kansas ranked 45th among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the latest week coronavirus cases in the United States increased 10.9% from the week before, with 770,895 cases reported. With 0.88% of the country's population, Kansas had 0.41% of the country's cases in the last week. Across the country, 22 states had more cases in the latest week than they did in the week before.

Saline County reported 38 cases and zero deaths in the latest week. A week earlier, it had reported 24 cases and two deaths. Throughout the pandemic it has reported 14,245 cases and 250 deaths.

Within Kansas, the worst weekly outbreaks on a per-person basis were in Trego County with 821 cases per 100,000 per week; Gove County with 493; and Stafford County with 385. The Centers for Disease Control says high levels of community transmission begin at 100 cases per 100,000 per week.

Adding the most new cases overall were Johnson County, with 1,042 cases; Sedgwick County, with 445 cases; and Shawnee County, with 242. Weekly case counts rose in 50 counties from the previous week. The worst increases from the prior week's pace were in Douglas, Crawford and Trego counties.

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Across Kansas, cases fell in 35 counties, with the best declines in Johnson County, with 1,042 cases from 1,108 a week earlier; in Lyon County, with 43 cases from 74; and in Miami County, with 48 cases from 64.

In Kansas, four people were reported dead of COVID-19 in the week ending Sunday. In the week before that, 136 people were reported dead.

A total of 789,859 people in Kansas have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began, and 8,943 people have died from the disease, Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the United States 84,762,022 people have tested positive and 1,008,585 people have died.

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Kansas's COVID-19 hospital admissions rising

USA TODAY analyzed federal hospital data as of Sunday, June 5.

Likely COVID patients admitted in the state:

  • Last week: 422

  • The week before that: 398

  • Four weeks ago: 303

Likely COVID patients admitted in the nation:

  • Last week: 58,022

  • The week before that: 55,117

  • Four weeks ago: 44,923

Hospitals in 35 states reported more COVID-19 patients than a week earlier, while hospitals in 32 states had more COVID-19 patients in intensive-care beds. Hospitals in 29 states admitted more COVID-19 patients in the latest week than a week prior, the USA TODAY analysis of U.S. Health and Human Services data shows.

The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Johns Hopkins University and the Centers for Disease Control. If you have questions about the data or the story, contact Mike Stucka at mstucka@gannett.com.

This article originally appeared on Salina Journal: Saline County reported 38 additional COVID-19 cases this week