The first confirmed case of coronavirus in Kansas has been admitted to a special treatment unit for emerging infectious disease at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kan., state and hospital officials said Monday.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment confirmed the patient was the woman from Johnson County identified Saturday as the first case of COVID-19 diagnosed in Kansas. She likely contracted the virus while traveling on the East Coast. Her family has entered voluntary quarantine.
“We will have more cases in the state of Kansas,” said KDHE Secretary Lee Norman. “It’s going to be hard … to contain it.”
He said Kansas health officials continued to track about 80 people with symptoms of the virus who emerged in China and spread to about half the world’s countries.
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