Kansas health officials advise 14 days quarantine for travelers to Colorado, Louisiana
Any Kansan who returns home from Louisiana or Colorado on or after Friday should quarantine themselves for 14 days, the state health department announced Friday.
The states join a growing list of areas in and outside the United States where there is “widespread community transmission” of the new coronavirus, according to a release from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
Earlier this month the state issued the same advisory for California, Florida, New York, Washington state, Illinois, New Jersey, and parts of Colorado. Residents are also asked to quarantine themselves if they went on a cruise or traveled to China, South Korea, Japan, Italy or Iran.
The COVID-19 outbreaks in Colorado and Louisiana have grown in the past weeks.
As of Friday, Louisiana had reported more than 2,700 cases of the virus, Colorado had reported more than 1,400 by Thursday afternoon.
As state and local governments across the country imposed stay-at-home orders to halt the spread of the virus, the United States surpassed China and Italy on Thursday and leads the world in number of confirmed cases of COVID-19.
More than 97,000 people in the U.S. had been infected and more than 1,500 had died by Friday afternoon, according to a database maintained by Johns Hopkins University in New York.
This story was originally published March 27, 2020 at 4:55 PM with the headline "Kansas health officials advise 14 days quarantine for travelers to Colorado, Louisiana."
