The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC), is once again recommending people wear masks indoors, after forty-one Kansas Counties have entered the high risk category for COVID-19.
The KDHE shows that 2,827 Sedgwick County residents tested positive for the coronavirus in the past two weeks. Sedgwick County Health officials say the new COVID variant is one of the reasons for the rise in cases.
"It is more infectious than the other variants," said Assistant Sedgwick County Health Director Chris Steward. "But, it doesn't cause a more severe disease," she added.
Sedgwick County is one of the counties the CDC recommends mask up.
Other Counties include:
County Total Cases
Allen 4,295
Anderson 2,257
Atchison 4,548
Barber 1,075
Barton 6,736
Bourbon 4,768
Brown 2,854
Butler 19,990
Chase 698
Chautauqua 876
Cherokee 6,517
Cheyenne 668
Clark 518
Clay 2,075
Cloud 2,333
Coffey 2,520
Comanche 452
Cowley 10,714
Crawford 12,820
Decatur 638
Dickinson 5,091
Doniphan 2,566
Douglas 29,540
Edwards 574
Elk 590
Ellis 7,437
Ellsworth 2,085
Finney 11,824
Ford 11,104
Franklin 7,318
Geary 9,792
Gove 831
Graham 605
Grant 2,325
Gray 1,252
Greeley 340
Greenwood 1,879
Hamilton 484
Harper 1,707
Harvey 10,246
Haskell 989
Hodgeman 425
Jackson 4,109
Jefferson 5,100
Jewell 828
Johnson 160,428
Kearny 1,285
Kingman 2,074
Kiowa 693
Labette 6,970
Lane 308
Leavenworth 21,027
Lincoln 642
Linn 2,992
Logan 880
Lyon 10,574
Marion 3,472
Marshall 2,635
McPherson 8,271
Meade 1,246
Miami 8,414
Mitchell 1,499
Montgomery 9,808
Morris 1,578
Morton 640
Nemaha 3,389
Neosho 5,457
Ness 797
Norton 2,173
Osage 4,174
Osborne 846
Ottawa 1,256
Pawnee 2,278
Phillips 1,397
Pottawatomie 6,145
Pratt 2,014
Rawlins 695
Reno 19,761
Republic 1,384
Rice 2,748
Riley 14,441
Rooks 1,408
Rush 831
Russell 1,916
Saline 14,919
Scott 1,358
Sedgwick 152,962
Seward 7,199
Shawnee 52,566
Sheridan 801
Sherman 1,562
Smith 657
Stafford 1,193
Stanton 442
Stevens 1,623
Sumner 5,926
Thomas 2,591
Trego 802
Wabaunsee 1,717
Wallace 455
Washington 1,450
Wichita 550
Wilson 2,959
Woodson 856
Wyandotte 49,774