Sumrall High Orders All 600 Students to Quarantine Amid Mississippi COVID-19 Outbreaks
One Lamar County, Miss., high school ordered its entire student body of about 600 to quarantine at home for two weeks starting today amid a series of outbreaks.
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One Lamar County, Miss., high school ordered its entire student body of about 600 to quarantine at home for two weeks starting today amid a series of outbreaks.
The number of Mississippi nursing homes with active COVID-19 outbreaks is once again trending upward after declining for two months. The Mississippi State Department of Health reported outbreaks in 128 nursing homes Sunday, up from 121 on Sept. 30.
Southwest Mississippi could suffer flooding and wind gusts as high as 80 miles per hour after Hurricane Delta makes landfall on Louisiana’s coast on Friday. Weather models expect the storm to then travel along an eastward curve into the Magnolia State.
Less than a week after Gov. Tate Reeves ended his statewide mask mandate, COVID-19 cases are spiking across Mississippi, and hospitalizations are once again on the rise. K-12 schools also reported identifying a record number of new cases and quarantining more students, teachers and staff than in any single week.
At least one Mississippi child has died from COVID-19 for the first time since the pandemic arrived in the state in March. The Mississippi State Department of Health reported the death today. The State Health Officer, Dr. Thomas Dobbs, said the child did not suffer from other underlying health issues.
Mississippi school officials have ordered at least 12,700 students, teachers or school staff members to quarantine because of confirmed or potential COVID-19 infections since the start of school, new figures from the Mississippi State Department of Health show. The numbers, announced today, only cover cases or quarantines reported as of Friday, Aug. 28, and include 1,248 educators and students with known novel coronavirus infections.
Weeks into the fall semester, Mississippi schools have already identified at least 897 COVID-19 cases among students and teachers. By last Friday, schools had also ordered at least 6,532 others to also quarantine at home for two weeks due to exposure and possible infections.
Less than a week into the fall semester that began on Monday, Aug. 17, Mississippi State University has already begun moving COVID-19 positive students out of their dorms and into two local hotels in Starkville due to the coronavirus.
Mississippi public schools have confirmed 199 cases among students and 245 among teachers, Dobbs said, and school districts have ordered 2,035 students and 589 teachers to quarantine at home for two weeks after possible exposure to COVID-19. Schools in 71 of Mississippi’s 82 counties have reported cases, the state health officer said.
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