TOPEKA—Due to the Christmas holiday, the Kansas Department of Health did not update COVID numbers from across the state on Friday.
Just before before Christmas a year ago, the state reported 5089 new COVID cases and 59 new deaths. This week, the KDHE reported similar numbers.
On Wednesday, December 23, 2021, the KDHE reported 5,074 new cases for a total of 505,522 along with 34 additional COVID-19 deaths for a total of 6950.
The KDHE reported 4,443 COVID deaths over the past 52 weeks.
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As of August 1, 2021, in accordance with an updated CDC/CSTE surveillance case definition, a confirmed case is defined as a person who tested positive by molecular detection (e.g., PCR, NAA) or identification of SARS-CoV-2 through genetic sequencing. A probable case is defined as a person with: a) presumptive lab evidence (antigen) or b) no lab testing but meeting clinical case criteria and is epi-linked. A person will be counted as a new surveillance case (e.g. reinfection) if they test positive for SARS-CoV-2 by a diagnostic test (i.e., molecular, antigen) and it has been greater than 90 days since the previous positive diagnostic test. In addition, a person with sequencing results identifying different SARS-CoV-2 lineages regardless of the time since the previous specimen sequenced will be counted as a new surveillance case.
Cases occurring between September 1, 2020 and July 29, 2021 were classified by previous CDC/CSTE case definition, and cases prior to September 1, 2020 were classified by the original case definition.