Residents of Washington County are being mandated 14-day quarantine and isolation if they recently traveled to Riley County.
The Washington County Health Department announced this week the new measure which applies to any Washington County resident who traveled into Riley County on or after April 7. The measure is in place to limit the spread of COVID-19 into the rural northern Kansas county with a population of about 5,500 people.
The list also includes the Kansas counties of Johnson, Wyandotte, Douglas, Leavenworth, Sedgwick, Coffey and Shawnee. States included in that order include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Washington State as well as international travel and anyone who recently took a cruise.
Washington County had no confirmed cases of the coronavirus as of Friday. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported 1,166 cases statewide as of Friday, including 50 deaths.
