TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas health officials are monitoring up to a dozen people a day for the possibility that they have the new coronavirus and the state health department now can do its own testing, the department's top official said Wednesday.

Secretary Lee Norman had a news conference with Gov. Laura Kelly a day after the Department of Health and Environment launched an online resource center to disseminate information about the virus that causes COVID-19. A legislative committee also approved an increase in state aid to local health departments, and health and emergency management officia...