Whole Mississippi Intermediate School Forced to Quarantine After 30 Percent of Student Body Exposed to COVID-19
An entire intermediate school in Mississippi was forced to quarantine after more than 30 percent of the school’s student body was exposed to the new coronavirus.
Long Beach School District Superintendent Jay R. Smith sent a letter to parents of trainees at the Long Beach Intermediate School in Mississippi, alerting the new quarantine treatments. The letter states that the quarantine would begin on Wednesday, September 30 and last for two weeks, with trainees allowed to return on Wednesday, October 13.
” Currently, 15 trainees have actually tested positive and 165 are quarantined,” Smith wrote in the letter, while noting that these number correspond to 35 percent of trainees being impacted by the infection.
According to the letter, the school district received assistance from the Mississippi Department of Health mentioning that the whole school building must quarantine if 33 percent of the trainee body tests positive for the infection “and/or have been exposed to favorable cases.”
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In Mississippi, there are presently over 98,000 validated cases of the virus and at least 2,969 deaths, according to data from the state’s department of health.
The Mississippi Department of Health likewise offers COVID-19 data among 807 schools throughout 77 counties. According to the most current K-12 school report, launched by the state’s department of health on September 25, there are presently over 1,800 validated cases among trainees in Mississippi considering that the start of school, along with over 930 positive cases among instructors and staff.
The report likewise shows that as of September 25, a minimum of 4,601 Mississippi trainees were quarantined due to exposure to the infection, as well as 448 teachers and staff members.
Ahead of the start of the school year, the Long Beach School District decided to take a somewhat various method than others to bring trainees back to the class. According to a previous letter sent out by Smith, trainees in the school district were divided into 2 groups, and the teams would alternate going to personally classes for one week, while the other would gain from home.
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Due to the recent quarantine at the Long Beach Middle School, Smith noted in his letter that all trainees “will begin distance learning as quickly as possible.”
In August, the Biloxi High School in Mississippi experienced a similar scenario, and had to change to full distance learning after 15 students checked positive for COVID-19 and 324 were sent out home to quarantine.
Newsweek reached out to Smith for comment but did not get an action in time for publication.
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