The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department is located inside the Community Health Facility, 200 Maine St.

Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced Thursday that it was removing two greek houses at the University of Kansas from a list of nine under COVID-19 quarantine orders and adding another house to the list.

Late Wednesday, the county released the names of nine houses, and a possible tenth, that had been placed under quarantine orders to slow the spread of the respiratory virus and acknowledged that the process was “evolving.”

On Thursday, the county said, the process revealed that members who had tested positive in two houses — the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and Phi Kappa Psi fraternity — lived outside of the main buildings, so they were removed from the list. The Pi Beta Phi sorority was also added to the list of houses under quarantine orders.

The quarantine orders would apply to individuals currently living at the houses deemed to be close contacts at risk of exposure but would not extend to chapter members who live elsewhere, the county said Wednesday. Close contacts are individuals who spent more than 10 minutes within 6 feet of the person who tested positive back to 48 hours before the patient’s onset of symptoms.

The houses currently under quarantine orders from Douglas County are: Pi Kappa Phi (fraternity), Phi Gamma Delta (fraternity), Kappa Kappa Gamma (sorority), Gamma Phi Beta (sorority), Delta Delta Delta (sorority), Alpha Chi Omega (sorority), Pi Beta Phi (sorority), Sigma Nu (fraternity), and Beta Theta Pi (fraternity).

Though Phi Kappa Psi was removed from the county’s quarantine list, its live-in members are still under a two-week ban from any KU facilities other than Watkins Health Center. KU Chancellor Douglas Girod on Sunday banned the fraternity, along with the Kappa Sigma fraternity, from campus for two weeks after images and videos circulated on social media of members gathering in large groups outside without masks or social distancing.

KU greek life typically comprises 4,000 KU students in roughly 45 fraternity and sorority chapters. Of those, around 30 have their own housing where members can live, according to statistics from the university.

As of Tuesday afternoon 222 people at KU have tested positive out of 19,452 entry test results received, a positivity rate of 1.14%. The overall positivity rate among members of the greek community was 5.47%, and fraternity and sorority members account for 61.6% of all positive tests among students.

KU will release new testing data on Friday.