LIBERTY – The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore reported the nation’s death toll from COVID-19 this week topped 200,000, including more than four dozen deaths in the Northland. The numbers showed 6,897,661 cases and 200,818 deaths nationally; 1,743 cases and 40 deaths in Clay County; 158 cases and no deaths in Ray; and 643 cases and 10 deaths in Platte County. Clay, Ray and Platte comprise the three-county Northland. The Kansas City Region COVID-19 Data Hub, provided by the Mid-America Regional Council, shows the metro area has endured 40,963 cases and 561 deaths; averaged 315 cases daily over the past week, for a total of 2,207; and averaged two deaths daily, for a total of 16. Clay County Health Department numbers posted Monday show cases and deaths for the Kansas City portion of the county combined with the rest of the county. Taking county and city numbers together, there have been 3,704 cases and 54 deaths in Clay County. Based on a population of 6.51…