Kansas launches statewide COVID-19 testing strategy with goal of testing 60,000 per month through December

Three months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the state of Kansas has finally secured the necessary infrastructure and testing supplies to launch a statewide strategy to test at least 60,000 Kansans — or 2% of the state population — for the respiratory virus per month over the next six months, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Thursday. The strategy will focus on more rapid deployment of testing in areas with higher concentrations of the virus, a closer monitoring of the state’s testing supplies, and the use of four types of testing facilities to distribute COVID-19 tests: KDHE labs, mobile labs, commercial labs, and local reference labs.
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