TUESDAY UPDATES: Missouri DHSS adds 29 coronavirus related deaths after analyzing death certificates

Missouri DHSS has added 29 COVID-19 related deaths after the state’s disease surveillance system analyzed several death certificates.

Officials say the deaths will be captured and reported publicly through the dashboard Wednesday morning.

Of the 29 deaths:

• one in January
• one in February
• three in May
• 24 in June

Officials at DHSS report the weekly activity typically causes a sharp increase in the deaths added to Missouri’s total the following day. DHSS is now regularly analyzing death certificates on Mondays.

Officials say the state does not track probable or pending deaths.

City of Columbia to provide coronavirus update at the council meeting

The city of Columbia will provide an update on the coronavirus during the council meeting tonight at 7.

You can watch the meeting replay in the player below.

CPS reporting four classrooms at Mill Creek/Ridgeway are currently quarantined during summer school

The Columbia Public School District tracker is reporting 290 students are being quarantined due to coronavirus exposure, the majority of those are elementary students with 261 in quarantine.

CPS is also reporting 19 middle school students are in quarantine and only nine high school students are in quarantine.

According to the CPS dashboard, 14 out of 21 elementary schools have students out due to the virus and all seven middle schools have students out.

The district is reporting four classrooms at Mill Creek/Ridgeway are currently quarantined and learning remotely.

The district is reporting 28 students tested positive and 13 of them are elementary school students.

On Friday 72 new exposures were reported in the district. Only two new exposures were recorded Tuesday.

The CPS 14 day tracker is currently at 28.8 per 10,000 people.

The last time it was that high was Feb. 12.

CPS reports that masks continue to be encouraged and social distancing is implemented when possible. The district continues to follow contact tracing and quarantine protocols provided by health experts.

Boone County reports the first triple-digit daily coronavirus increase since Jan. 27

The Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services is reporting a resident has died from the coronavirus. That makes 118 total deaths since the pandemic began and the 33rd death this year. The individual was in the 45-49 age group.

The county is reporting 153 total new COVID-19 cases from Saturday to Tuesday. The county reports five new cases on Saturday, no new cases Sunday, 45 cases on Monday and 104 cases Tuesday. The 104 new daily cases are the highest total since Jan. 27 when 130 cases were reported.

There are currently 312 active cases in the county. This is the highest number of total cases since Feb. 8 when 359 cases were reported.

The county now has a reported total number of COVID-19 cases of 19,227.

The county has reported the total number of cases removed from isolation is 18,797.

The health department's hospital status remains in yellow.

The health department is reporting 12 Boone County residents are in the hospital due to the coronavirus.

 Scott Clardy says that there are 70 hospitalizations in the county. That's a 40% increase over the 50 reported Friday. 

The State of Missouri coronavirus vaccine dashboard is reporting that 91,518 residents have received their first dose in Boone County and 81,819 Boone County residents have completed their vaccine doses.

Boone County has the largest percentage of people in Mid-Missouri that have received at least one dose of the vaccine with 50.7%. The second closest in the state is St. Louis County with 49.3%.

Boone County is first in the state with a reported 45.3% of residents that have completed their coronavirus vaccine doses. St. Louis County is second in the state with 43.6% of residents have completed the doses for vaccination.

Cole County has the second-highest first vaccination rate in Mid-Missouri with 41.1%. Montgomery County is third with 37.1%.

State COVID-19 positivity rises to 10.5%

Missouri's seven-day COVID-19 positivity rate increased to 10.5% Tuesday, according to the state health dashboard.

Monroe County recorded the highest positivity rate in the state, nearly triple the statewide rate. As of Tuesday morning, Monroe county recorded 33.33% as its seven-day COVID-19 positivity rate.

The state recorded fewer new cases of the virus in the past 24 hours following the holiday weekend. An additional 518 confirmed cases of COVID-19 were added to the dashboard Tuesday, bringing the total throughout the pandemic to 528,802.

State health officials also recorded 211 new probable cases of the virus. Since the pandemic started, 95,661 probable COVID-19 cases have been discovered through antigen testing.

No new deaths were reported Tuesday morning, leaving the total lives lost due to the coronavirus at 9,340.