Coronavirus update: Kansas sees 81 new cases of variants in two days Michael Stavola, The Wichita Eagle
Apr. 28 COVID-19 variant strain cases jumped more than 33% in two days in Kansas, with Sedgwick County making up 45 of the 81 new variant cases, according to Kansas Department of Health and Environment data released Wednesday.
Sedgwick County has the most variant cases and the most types of strains, the data shows.
Sedgwick County accounts for 112 of the 325 variant cases, or about 34.5%, of all the variant cases. Two more strains were also found in Sedgwick County since Monday, bringing the total to six strains.
Thirty-two counties now have variants after a variant case was found in Reno County.
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Apr. 21 An unvaccinated employee of a Wichita nursing home was the first person diagnosed with COVID-19 in a cluster that has infected five residents of the facility. New clusters of the coronavirus have been reported in Wichita as both Sedgwick County and Kansas as a whole have "substantial" community spread, according to a White House report. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment .