KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri reported its largest number of COVID-19 deaths in a single day Saturday, with 32 counted in a 24-hour period, according to the state public health agency.
During the same 24-hour period Saturday, the state reported 1,198 new infections.
The latest figures brought the total number of coronavirus deaths in the state to 1,496. The total number of cases was 82,190, with a seven-day positivity rate of 12.2%.
The number of hospitalizations from the virus in Missouri reached 976.
Of all the coronavirus deaths reported so far in Missouri, the largest number, 749, have been among people 80 years old or older.
The virus has also killed 97 people aged 50-59, 30 people aged 40-49, 11 people aged 30-39 and 8 people in their 20s.
Missouri has been regularly reporting more than 1,000 new infections on a daily basis during the month of August.
In the Kansas City metropolitan area, health agencies reported 424 new COVID-19 cases Saturday, bringing the total number of people infected with the virus there to more than 30,000. Four more people died.
It was the fourth day in a row that more than 400 new cases were reported in the metro area, encompassing Kansas City and Jackson, Clay and Platte counties in Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas.
To date, 30,172 residents of the metro area have been diagnosed with the virus.
