In the face of rapidly rising coronavirus cases in Johnson County and a clampdown on who can get tested, officials on Thursday called for more funds to pay private labs to step up testing.
“Yesterday we spoke with four different labs that are able to carry this out,” said Sanmi Areola, who started this week as director of the Johnson County Department of Public Health and Environment. “The opportunity to do the testing is there, but we do need the resources to be able to implement it.”
The number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in Johnson County increased by four Thursday morning, bringing the county’s total to 50, by far the highest in Kansas. Just a day earlier, Johnson County health officials reported an additional 10 cases of COVID-19.
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