The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rocketed up in western Kansas this week from infection clusters involving at least six private businesses, state health officials said.
The most dramatic increase was in Ford County, where the number shot up from just two cases on April 9 to 84 cases on Friday, accounting for nearly a quarter of all new cases in the state for the past two days.
The increase moved Ford County into the fifth-highest case count in the state, behind Wyandotte, Johnson, Sedgwick, Leavenworth and Shawnee counties.
More than two dozen cases are also now confirmed in Finney and Seward counties, putting them 11th and 12th, respectively, on the state’s case count list.
(Read more: Local – The Hutchinson News)
