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Missouri records highest single-day coronavirus case increase

Monday marked the largest daily increase in statewide positive coronavirus cases.

Missouri reported 368 new positives, for a total of 8,754 since the pandemic began. Many recent positives are coming from large-scale testing around meat processing plants.

Another six people in Missouri have died from COVID-19, for a total of 358.

Locally, the spread has slowed. Boone, Cole, Callaway, and Moniteau counties all did not report a new positive case on Monday. Most patients are recovering or out of isolation in those counties.

Fewer than half the patients in Saline County have recovered. There was one new positive reported Monday, for a total of 203.

(This story was last updated at 5:59 a.m. Tuesday.)

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