By the Associated Press:
The Kansas health department says a coronavirus variant did not cause a fast-moving outbreak at a Kansas prison that infected dozens of inmates and staff.
Health department spokesperson Kristi Zears said Monday that testing showed the COVID-19 outbreak at the Winfield Correctional Facility in south-central Kansas was not caused by virus variants first detected in Great Britain or South Africa.
The state Department of Corrections reported that the Winfield prison had 14 active cases among staff and 112 among its population of about 450 inmates as of Thursday. Public health officials had feared a coronavirus variant was responsible because the outbreak developed only over a few days.
