Reno County Health Department director Nick Baldetti clarified Tuesday that the county has ordered quarantine on a handful of occasions during the COVID-19 outbreak.
"We have administered a few formal quarantine orders," Baldetti said. "Both in those circumstances and generally speaking, we've had fair compliance across the board for those individuals both on a voluntary basis and for those circumstances where we've administered a quarantine order."
Some of them were a formality.
"Two of them were actually simply requested as a measure of paperwork, so that they could essentially prove to whichever stakeholders that they weren't lying, I suppose," Baldetti said.
There have been three official orders thus far.
"All 27 positives have been asked to self-quarantine, in addition to anyone throughout the duration that has been a high-risk circumstance or a probable," Baldetti said. "It's far more than the 27 simply off of the positive cases."
A Barton County man was actually arrested last week for not following a quarantine order in that county.