COVID-19 cases continued to rise in Ford County as the the Kansas Department of Health and Environment numbers for Friday show 84 people have tested positive for the coronavirus.
According to Ford County administrator J.D. Gilbert, the Ford County Health Department recorded 16 new COVID-19 cases on Friday.
“The increase in cases the last few days is attributed to the health department investigation team identifying close contacts of already confirmed positive cases,” Gilbert said. “We do not have evidence of community spread even though we have seen a lot of positive cases recently.
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