The Kansas City area’s first death from the coronavirus was announced Thursday night by Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly. A male in his 70s died in a long-term care facility in Wyandotte County, she said.
The announcement came hours after Mayor David Alvey of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, had told residents they did not have a confirmed case of COVID-19 in the county.
No cases of the respiratory illness have been confirmed in Kansas City, but three new cases were identified earlier Thursday in Johnson County. In Missouri, Gov. Mike Parson announced the state’s second “presumptive positive” case, found in Greene County.
(Read more: KC Star Local News)