JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (AP) – New figures published on Missouri’s coronavirus control panel Wednesday after a four-day close show that the state has recorded an average of 1,861 cases in line with the day during the following week.
The total number of cases across the state increased Wednesday to 148,679 from 135,651 on 7 October. The death rate increased in this era from 184 to 2,420, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.
The board has been closed as the number of instances attributed through officials to a “knowledge base extraction error” was reported through a large peak. A day later, the state announced that the new number was faulty and blamed the knowledge migration procedure to the new system.
The signature on a tweet that had corrected the mistake and thanked the public for their patience.
Meanwhile, 56 Missouri veterans’ homes have been killed by COVID-19 since September 1, 25 at a facility in southeastern Missouri.
A spokesman for the Missouri Veterans Commission told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday the deadliest outbreak in Cape Girardeau, where 20 citizens died in September and five more died from October to Monday.
Another space for veterans in the city of Mt. Vernon, the site of thirteen resident deaths, another 12 died in St. Louis. James and six others died in Warrensburg.
Thirty-eight of the deaths occurred in September, Jamie Melchert, spokesman for the Missouri Veterans Commission.
Before September, the only coronavirus death shown at a Missouri veterans’ home in April in northern St. John’s County. Louis.
Republican Gov. Mike Parson called for an external review of operations at veterans’ homes on October 2, but did not say how many veterans had died. Louis’ law firm, Armstrong Teasdale, would handle the review.
During one to the mountain. Vernon Veterans Home on September 15, Parson praised the commission.
“During the COVID-19 pandemic, we worked hard to protect our most vulnerable citizens,” Parson said in a Facebook post. “Our Missouri Veterans Commission has established national popularity for veterans’ homes. “
The first positive COVID-19 test. Vernon Veterans House the next day, September 16, Melchert said.
Parson and his wife Teresa tested positive for COVID-19 on September 23 and have since recovered. A spokeswoman for the governor’s workplace said Parson did not contract the virus during his visit.