Health Department Reports 3rd COVID-19 Death In The County; Total Cases Surpass 200
Another death due to COVID-19 has been confirmed in Cowley County, according to a news release from the City-Cowley County Health Department Friday.
“Today, we learned that one person who had been struggling with the virus for several weeks and was hospitalized passed away,” the health department stated in the release. “Infection with SARS-CoV-2 was the major factor for the death.”
No further information about the deceased has been released. It’s the third death in the county associated with coronavirus since the pandemic began.
The first, 68-year-old Sam Crain , a long-time Ark City educator according to his obituary,
died April 8. The second, a 34-year-old Hispanic-Latino male whose name has not been publicized,
died July 17.
Friday, the health department reported 209 positive cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the county
since a national emergency proclamation was issued by the White House on March 13.
Later Friday afternoon, however, the
Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported 222 total cases so far for Cowley County.
Of the county health department’s reported 209 cases — excluding the three deaths — 39 remain active and 167 have recovered.
As of Friday, 3,522 people in Cowley County have been tested for the virus. Cowley County has a population of 34,908 people as of July 2019, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
On average, the health department said it has been testing 250 people per week in the county for those showing symptoms.
Statewide, KDHE reported Friday 36.856 total confirmed cases since March, including 2,159 hospitalizations, 419 deaths and 329.459 negative tests.
That’s a total of 366,315 tests for the state, which amounts to roughly 13 percent of the state’s population. Kansas has a population of 2.9 million people.
Kay County, Oklahoma, has risen to 281 total cases and remains at 11 deaths. Overall, the state of Oklahoma has reported 51,746 total positive cases and 715 deaths.
Official testing numbers for Oklahoma are not widely available, however,
an independent tracking website operated by
The Atlantic Monthly, dubbed the “The COVID Tracking Project,” reports 800,902 tests have been performed so far, which amounts to 20 percent of the state’s residents. Oklahoma’s population numbers 3.9 million.
The City-Cowley County Health Department said Friday that contact tracing and disease investigation indicates that the spread of the virus continues to be communal in nature and is being passed through person to person close contact throughout the county.
The data continues to indicate that there is a significantly higher incidence of illness in the Arkansas City vicinity when compared to other communities in the county.
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