A City of Winfield employee tested positive for COVID-19 last week.
Winfield City Manager Taggart Wall confirmed the case to KSOK-NewsCow Tuesday. Wall said the employee is not an individual in city hall or any other building frequented by the public.
“Last Wednesday, the City of Winfield confirmed an employee that was symptomatic tested positive for COVID-19,” Wall said. “We continue to be in consultation with the City-Cowley County Health Department and any contact tracing has been completed.
“All employees have been instructed to continue to be vigilant in monitoring for symptoms or signs of any sickness. Any employees that are ill for any reason have been instructed to stay home.”
Wall said the city has undertaken extra disinfection in the affected work area and that the employee is at home on quarantine until a negative test is received.
Additional employees in that workspace have been tested and those tests have returned negative.
As of Tuesday morning, the City-Cowley County Health Department website reports three more cases have been confirmed in the county since Friday
Cowley County now totals 76 cases of COVID-19 so far since the pandemic began, with 15 considered currently active and 60 recovered.
An Ark City man who tested positive April 1 died a week later and remains the only death in the county connected to the virus.
So far, 1,683 people have been tested in the county since a national emergency proclamation was issued by the White House on March 13.
Cowley County has a population of 34,908 people as of July 2019, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Kansas is nearing 17,000 cases and has totaled 280 deaths, according to Monday’s report from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
Sumner County added four more cases over the weekend and now totals 16 cases and remains at one death.
Kay County, Oklahoma, has recorded 113 cases to date and remains at seven deaths.
