After weeks of limiting coronavirus testing to a relative handful of people per day, Sedgwick County is about to ramp up the effort, the county health director said Wednesday.
Adrienne Byrne told county commissioners that the Health Department has contracted with a private-sector lab and should be able to increase its tests to about 50 a day.
That’s more than twice to three times as many as the 15-20 people a day the county has been testing since the pandemic began.
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