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Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday said now is not the time to remove a countywide mask mandate, and on Friday they said it would be difficult to pinpoint when the time will be right. All three county commissioners told the Journal-World that they couldn't point to any specific level of ...
Douglas County has added 165 new COVID-19 cases in the past two days, bringing the total number of cases since March of 2020 to 24,630, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. The county has 2,703 active cases as of Friday afternoon. The number of inpatients hospitalized for COVID ...
Douglas County's mask mandate in indoor public spaces will continue for at least three more weeks. On Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission voted unanimously to extend the order, which applies to everyone age 2 and older, through the end of the day on March 2. That's the date of the ...
Douglas County has added 248 new COVID-19 cases in the past two days, bringing the total number of cases since March of 2020 to 24,459, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. The county has 3,256 active cases as of Wednesday afternoon. The number of inpatients hospitalized for ...
Story updated at 3:36 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8: TOPEKA — Fellow Republican conservatives rallied Tuesday behind a Kansas physician-legislator who's under investigation by the state medical board, advancing his measures to protect doctors pursuing potentially dangerous treatments for COVID-19 and ...
Douglas County added another 216 new coronavirus cases over the weekend, but the 14-day rolling average daily case count continues to drop. With that group of new cases, the county’s total case count since March of 2020 is now 24,211, with 3,850 active cases. Meanwhile, the rolling case ...