With 11 presumptive positive cases as of Wednesday, Johnson County accounts for more than half of the COVID-19 infections in the state. And the fact that a number of those cases have been attributed to local transmission — that is, people who contracted the virus from someone in the county who already had it as opposed to during travel elsewhere — has prompted the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to limit the number of tests it will deploy here.
In a series of new directives issues Wednesday, KDHE set guidelines for how the state will use the limited number of tests currently at its disposal. In areas without established community transmission, KDHE says, catching early cases through testing is more likely to stem the spread of the virus.
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