Missouri counties seeing pre-summer COVID-19 spike
Livingston, Linn Counties navigating case surge
and last updated 2021-06-03 08:59:45-04
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â COVID-19 numbers are falling in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area, but two counties to the East are currently experiencing a pre-summer surge in cases.
Livingston and Linn Counties are recording a significant increase in case numbers, largely outpacing state and national numbers as seen in this graphic:
Both counties are two of the worst counties with COVID-19 cases per capita in the country, and they recently identified the COVID-19 Delta variant, first identified in India, as circulating in their communities, as well as the variant first identified in the United Kingdom.
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