Sedgwick County Commission to meet today to discuss restrictions to slow coronavirus
Sedgwick County commissioners will hold a special meeting at 4 p.m. Monday to discuss whether to institute a stay-at-home order or take other actions in response to coronavirus.
“I would say it is talking about what actions it’s going to take as a county, whether we are going to stay the same, whether we are going to enact a stay-at-home ordinance,” said county commissioner Lacy Cruse. “Those are the kinds of things that hopefully we will decide today.”
The meeting will be livestreamed on the county’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.
Among the ideas that have been discussed:
▪ lowering number of people who can gather at one place from 50 to 10.
▪ ordering bars to close and restaurants to go to pick-up and delivery-only service.
▪ enacting a more comprehensive shut down of businesses with a list of exceptions of types of businesses deemed critical that could stay open.
As of Monday, Sedgwick County was reporting two positive cases of covid-19 . Neighboring Butler County had three. Kansas had a total of 82 cases as of 10 a.m. Monday, with most of them in the Kansas City metro area.
Beginning at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, the entire Kansas City metro area will be under a stay-out-home-order.
In Sedgwick County, physician Garold Minns, the county’s health officer, said Sunday that if he could shut down everything he would, but the consequences of doing that would be worse than the disease.
“I think the community is actually coming along pretty well,” he said during a news conference Sunday. “I think it is better to do what we are doing.”
This story will be updated throughout the day.
This story was originally published March 23, 2020 at 11:39 AM.
