Ascension Via Christi President Bob Copple joined News Radio KMAN during the 7 a.m. hour for our daily COVID-19 update.
Author: KMAN Staff
Riley County residents not engaged in essential work or activities will have to stay at home for a 14 day period starting Sunday, Marcy 29th to stymie the spread of COVID-19. The Riley County Health Department issued the stay at home order on Friday, which will stay in place until April 12th — though that could be re-evaluated and extended depending on local conditions. The order comes as cases of novel coronavirus infection continue to increase in Kansas, up from 168 on Thursday to 202 on Friday afternoon. No new cases were confirmed in Riley County, which has had two…
While the novel coronavirus putting cities across the nation in quarantine is of zoonotic origin and ranchers are no stranger to other forms of coronaviruses, a Kansas State veterinarian says livestock pose no apparent risk of COVID-19 infection. K-State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Production Animal Field Investigations Unit Director Gregg Hanzlicek spoke on the topic on a recent edition of K-State Research and Extension’s Agriculture Today program. He says there’s a lot of misinformation circulating online, but research has given them “no indication” that livestock can carry or vector COVID-19 to humans. “Either through carrying it on their hair or their…
Kansas 66th District Representative Sydney Carlin announced that she has filed for reelection. She says doing so required driving to Topeka. Carlin says she feels she brings a lot of experience to the table as a politician. Carlin has represented the 66th District in the Kansas House of Representatives since being elected in 2000. She will be up for reelection this November. The deadline for filing for election is June 1.
On Friday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with RCPD Director Dennis Butler.
TOPEKA (AP)- The spread of the coronavirus across Kansas is touching prisons, ranchers and the state’s revenue. Kansas reported at least 168 confirmed cases of the coronavirus Thursday, with three deaths. Unemployment also has spiked because of the economic fallout from the pandemic, with the unemployment claims last week 12 times as high as the previous week. Gov. Laura Kelly said the state’s tax collections likely are already being affected by the virus. Also Thursday, Sedgwick County said about 200 inmates have been released from the county jail. The state also asked farmers and ranchers to reduce the number of…
Ascension Via Christi Dr. Matt Floersch joined News Radio KMAN during the 7 a.m. hour for our daily COVID-19 update in place of President Bob Copple
Members of the Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice called for the resignation of Riley County Commissioner Marvin Rodriguez during Thursday’s Riley County commission meeting. This is due to the comments Rodriguez made during the special meeting on March 18. These comments are being seen as racist since he says the risk of COVID-19 is low in the county due to “not having any Chinese.” One of the members, Fanny Fang, is the daughter of Chinese immigrants and has been living in Manhattan for most of her life. “When I heard of Commissioner Rodriguez’s racist remarks, it only reminds of…
UPDATE AS OF 4:30 PM (3/26/2020): Riley County now has two confirmed positive cases of COVID-19. The first patient is a 57 year-old Manhattan woman who visited the Kansas City area last weekend and returned to her private residence in Topeka, where she remains in home isolation. “She was tested in Topeka on Monday and has been in isolation in that location ever since. She did not travel anywhere in the Manhattan area since being exposed,” Riley County Health Department Director Julie Gibbs said Thursday at her daily news conference. The second patient is a Fort Riley soldier who resides…