Lyon County enters the week with slow increases in the numbers of overall and active COVID-19 cases in place the last several days.
Lyon County Public Health reported 523 total cases along with 25 active cases and seven deaths in its last report Thursday. It also reported one active meatpacking cluster with 194 total cases, four of which are active, and four deaths; a private industry cluster with 126 total cases, three active and one death; and the cluster at the Lyon County Detention Center with six total cases, four of which are active.
Single-digit overall caseload increases on a daily basis have actually stretched back to May 28, when there were 414 cases. The active case count has bounced up and down since June 28, bottoming out at 19 cases on June 29 and again this past Tuesday. It now stands at 25.
Nearly 3,200 residents, or nearly 10 percent of the county population, has been tested.
Lyon County remains ninth in overall cases statewide but remains well behind the state leaders in that category. Wyandotte County now has nearly 3,000 cases, and the Kansas City metro area — on the Kansas side of the Missouri state line — accounts for almost 7,000 cases when Wyandotte, Johnson and Leavenworth counties are added. That’s almost 38 percent of the state’s 18,611 cases, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. As of Friday, 284 residents statewide had died from COVID-19.
