The Riley County Health Department will offer a free testing event this Monday, Nov. 16, in addition to the weekly testing event on Thursday.
“We’re doing that mainly for individuals who want to travel for Thanksgiving and students who’d like to travel home,” Gibbs said. “We’re doing that so that they know what their status is.”
The free testing event will take place in CiCo Park from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m.
Riley County is currently in the middle of a bump in positive cases.
Gibbs says that while many of the new active cases are in the 18 to 24-years-old age range, the percentages are shifting.
“That percentage is definitely down from where it was even just a month ago where we were seeing about 80 to 90 percent of our new cases coming from that 18 to 24-year age range,” Gibbs said. “Now, we’re seeing about 50 to 60 percent coming from there, so it’s definitely spreading out into other age ranges as well.”
As of Wednesday, Riley County had 351 active cases.
