Missouri reports only 43 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday

Missouri health officials reported a small increase in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on Sunday, after several days or more than 1,000 newly confirmed cases.

The health department reported 167,452 newly confirmed cases, an increase of only 43 from Saturday.

That comes after the state reported well over 1,000 new cases on five days between Oct. 16 to Oct. 22.

On Saturday, the state reported an increase of 2,918 new cases of COVID-19 but health officials said those numbers reflected a high number of test and case records received on Thursday and Friday.

Missouri also has recorded 2,805 deaths since the pandemic began, an increase of four from Saturday.