Nearly 500 more case of COVID-19 were identified between the Thursday and Friday updates from Missouri Governor, Mike Parson. The number of fatalities also rose significantly……….

Those numbers equate to a morbidity rate for COVID-19 of a little over 2.5 percent. The next briefing on the numbers will come on Monday afternoon, there will be no update this weekend. About half of the fatalities have been in the St. Louis metropolitan area, which includes the city of St. Louis, St. Louis County, and St. Charles County. There are still no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Laclede County.