Possible new health order The Riley County Health Department will consider issuing a new, more restrictive health order as soon as next week. “What we have in our order right now is just not working,” Julie Gibbs, RCHD administrator, said. “We are going to need to do something a little bit more restrictive.” County health [...]

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Local health officials are watching COVID-19 numbers this week as an evaluation of a recent health order in response to rising case numbers of late. Riley County Health Department Director Julie Gibbs update the public on the latest pandemic information via Facebook Live Wednesday. Wednesday, she reported 9 new active COVID-19 cases and 16 new recoveries. [...]

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Health officials Wednesday officially designated COVID-19 outbreaks centered around Aggieville and Kansas State University. Riley County health officials updated the public via Facebook Live, saying the designation was made that morning in collaboration with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The county reported 24 new positive cases since Monday and 51 since Friday the [...]

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Riley County health department announced Local Health Order No. 13. This new health order in place due to the recent increase in positive cases, more hospitalizations, and heightened evidence of community spread.  The issue will go into effect at12:01 a.m. on Wednesday Jun 24 and will remain in effect for 14 days, or until amended, [...]

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An employee in the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office tested positive for COVID-19 last week. As a result, the Pottawatomie County Health Department will begin testing select inmates and corrections staff on Wednesday, June 17. The new patient is the first county staff member to test positive for COVID-19. Anyone who was in close contact with [...]

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In a release from K-State Athletics on Tuesday afternoon, the school announced that two of their student athletes had tested positive for COVID-19. A source told KMAN on Tuesday morning that at least one of the positives is a member of the football team. K-State received the positive results after 120 student-athletes had been tested [...]

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Riley County is reporting 3 new positive COVID-19 tests Friday morning. The patients are a 21 year old man, 90 year old woman and 95 year old woman. KMAN will update with additional information as it is released. That brings the county to an overall total of 74 positive novel coronavirus tests. If no new [...]

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The Riley County Health Department has announced the issuance of Health Order No. 12, changing planned reductions in mass gathering restrictions. Mass gathering sizes were originally scheduled to increase to 100 people beginning June 10 and 250 people starting June 17. With the new health order, gathering sizes will be limited to 50 people until [...]

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Riley County now has its second coronavirus related death. The Riley County Health Department was notified that an 88 year-old Riley County man died after testing positive for COVID-19 over the weekend.  He was one of the three new positive cases reported on yesterday. The patient was hospitalized in a neighboring community where he was [...]

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Riley County has confirmed one new positive case of the coronavirus, bringing the total to 67. This case involves at 61-year-old male who is considered a household contact of a separate positive patient. This brings the total number of active cases in Riley County to eight. The county so far has had 58 recoveries, 55 [...]

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