KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, continues to spread across the world, and in Missouri and Kansas.
41 Action News is keeping track of all closings and cancellations, as well as tracking where positive coronavirus cases are located.
We are also keeping track of which metro jurisdictions are under stay at home orders for the foreseeable future, only allowing for essential business and activities.
We've also compiled a detailed list of school district meal service options while schools are closed.
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Updates on the spread of the virus and how it is affecting the metro can be found below for April 6.
8 p.m. | Kansas City-based Hallmark Cards says that while the company temporarily reduces hours for employees, its corporate officers, including president and CEO Mike Perry, will take a 20% pay cut until the business has stabilized from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
6:25 p.m. | Kansas City Public Schools will temporarily suspend its meal distribution because a Child Nutrition Services staff member has a presumed positive case of COVID-19. The district has a list of other food distribution resources on its website.
6:00 p.m. | Late Monday afternoon, the Riverbend Post Acute Rehabilitation facility in Kansas City, Kansas, said 33 residents and four staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. At the facility, four people have died.
5:33 p.m. | Missouri will receive an additional $3.9 million in funding to combat the COVID-19 outbreak from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Sen. Roy Blunt said in a statement.
Missouri has now received more than $13 million from the CDC, according to a release from Blunt's office. The Missouri Republican is chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee.
The money will be used for the Emerging Infection Program and in Missouri's "hot zones" for "lab equipment, supplies, staffing, shipping, infection control, surge staffing, monitoring of individuals, and data management," according to the release.
5 p.m. | Clay County says a second resident has died from COVID-19. The 64-year-old woman tested positive on March 25. Her case was not travel-related and her death is the first reported by the Clay County Public Health Center.
The other Clay County death was a Kansas City, Missouri, resident.
4:25 p.m. | Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signed an executive order that suspends the requirement for a "notary public" to conduct notarizations for "official documents while the [signer] appears personally in front of him or her," according to a news release.
"The order allows for the use of audio-video technology to complete the personal appearance requirement, protecting the health and safety of both notaries public as well as Missourians who otherwise would have been required to have close contact with the notary," the release stated.
4:09 p.m. | The Kansas City, Missouri, Health Department confirmed that one of its five confirmed COVID-19 deaths is in Clay County, marking the first confirmed fatality from the virus in the county. The other four deaths are in Jackson County, which has a total of eight confirmed COVID-19 deaths between the county and city health departments.
3:57 p.m. | The Jackson County Legislature approved another $4 million in emergency funding for the COVID-19 response. Another $2 million will go toward purchasing personal protective equipment (PPE) and testing kits, and $2 million will go to provide emergency housing for the homeless.
2:40 p.m. | Kansas City, Missouri, officials announced that 210 cases have been confirmed and five residents have died of COVID-19. In the metro, 27 deaths have now been reported.
2:30 p.m. | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to the intensive care unit of a London hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worsened.
2:20 p.m. | Missouri officials now report more than 2,700 cases of COVID-19. In the state, there have been 55 deaths reported.
1:45 p.m. | Riverbend Post Acute Rehabilitation, a nursing home in Kansas City, Kansas, reports three deaths related to COVID-19 and 25 confirmed cases at the facility.
1:05 p.m. | The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department says Monday that five of its members have tested positive for COVID-19, including three sworn officers assigned to the patrol bureau and two non-sworn civilian employees. In addition, 25 others are in quarantine. Sgt. Jake Becchina says staffing levels "are good still" and that the department has provisions in place to ensure enough staffing to respond to calls for service.
12:58 p.m. | COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have passed 10,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. The deaths have doubled in the last five days.
12:10 p.m. | In their daily update, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported a total of 845 positive COVID-19 tests in the state and 25 deaths from the virus. Approximately 33 percent of cases have required hospitalization.
41 Action News' case count for Kansas is at 855 and is comprised of state date combined with additional data reported by individual counties.
11:43 a.m. | The Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center reported its first COVID-19-related death Monday morning.
The patient was a veteran in their 60s who had been admitted April 1, and died Sunday.
11:30 a.m. | The Johnson County Mental Health Center is adding and adjusting services "to respond to the increased community need."
The center's crisis line, which can be reached by calling 913-268-0156, will be staffed 24/7. It also is increasing caseloads, providing phone and curbside services for medication refills, and using Zoom for psychosocial groups.
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9:50 a.m. | The British Open is the latest sporting event to be canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
9:24 a.m. | All University of Missouri summer classes will be taught online only due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. The university made the announcement on Monday.
9:17 a.m. | Wyandotte County, Kansas, has reported another COVID-19 death, bringing their total to seven and the metro total to 24. There are 172 total patients in the county.
There are now 820 cases of COVID-19 in the Kansas City metro.
8:51 a.m. | Johnson County, Kansas, is now up to 213 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and a ninth person has died from the virus. That brings the total of virus deaths in the metro to 23.
8:44 a.m. | The Spring Parade of Homes event has been postponed, according to organizers. The event has not been canceled, but there is not a new date to be announced at this time.
8:30 a.m. | Officials with the University of Kansas Health System gave their daily update on COVID-19 operations. The system currently has 33 COVID-19 patients and nine of them are on ventilators.
They also demonstrated how to properly use a mask as PPE.
6:26 a.m. | Price Chopper announced they are donating $250,000 to Harvesters. They are also allowing customers to donate to Harvesters at check out through April 30.
5:25 a.m. | Jackson County Sheriff Darryl Forte spoke to 41 Action News on-air about how the department is dealing with COVID-19. There have been no confirmed cases of the virus within the department, but they are still taking extra cleaning precautions to keep it that way.
5 a.m. | Beginning at 7:45 p.m. Monday, the Henry Wollman Bloch Fountain at Union Station will begin running shows. After that, the shows will run from noon to 10 p.m. daily.
Guests should not visit the show in person while stay-at-home orders and social distancing measures are in place. Instead, Union Station will provide live and shared videos on their social media accounts.
Beginning Tuesday, April 7, the Henry Wollman Bloch Fountain will run shows daily from Noon – 10PM. Union Station is not encouraging guests to visit the fountain. Rather, guests will be able to view via Union Station Facebook Live events and video shared to our accounts.
— Union Station KC (@UnionStationKC) April 6, 2020
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