KANSAS CITY, Missouri – Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said Monday that she plans to take the state back to phase 2 of the Ad Astra plan on the state’s COVID-19 case numbers.
Phase 2 would restrict mass gatherings to 15 other people or less and close bars and nightclubs.
41 Action News knowledge analysis that there are more than 26,000 COVID-19 instances in the state of Kansas, with 852 new instances reported on Monday.
Kelly, in particular, noted the Kansas City metro, noting that the region had added more than 400 new instances per day for 4 consecutive days. In the state in general, 103 of the 105 counties have at least one case of COVID-19.
If the upward trajectory continues, Kelly stated that “you will have no choice” yet to propose a return to Phase 2.
“I don’t want to paint backwards. We can and wish to do better,” Kelly said. “We pretend that this virus is disappearing, in the heat of summer, and we pretend that it does not harm the inhabitants of Kansas, because it does.
The governor suggested elected leaders of his state act, saying the pandemic was not a partisan issue. He pointed to the Republican governors of Ohio and Indiana, who recently signed court orders against the masks.
“That’s what leaders do. They’re acting,” Kelly said.
Kelly said she and her team would monitor the stage this week and make a resolution on whether to factor the executive order next week.
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