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Breakout of new Covid cases and quarantines in Fayette County School System, in chart provided by the system Feb. 13.
Covid infection increases among students at 2 high schools bumped up the number of new cases reported in the Fayette County School System last week, according to figures in the system’s weekly report for Feb. 6 through Feb. 12.
Starr’s Mill High School jumped from 2 students cases the previous week to 10 last week, and McIntosh High went from 3 cases the previous week to 9 cases this past week.
That helped to increase last week’s number of new cases to 48 students and 19 staff members for a total of 67 new cases. That compares to 51 new cases the previous week 34 students and 17 staff members.
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Fayette County Schools weekly Covid report from Jan. 30 through Feb. 5. Graphic/Fayette County School System.
Slightly fewer new Covid cases were reported among students and school staff in the past week, but more persons had to sit out quarantines after exposures, the Fayette County School System said Feb. 6.
The number of positive cases plus quarantined students and staff members totaled 557 as of Friday afternoon, Feb. 5, the system report showed, an increase of 78 persons over the previous week.
There were 17 new Covid cases among staff members and 34 students newly infected during the past week, for a total of 51, according to the report. That compares with 18 students and 36 staffers for a total of 54 positives the previous week.
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Total new positive Covid-19 infections rose slightly among students and staff members in the week ended Jan. 29, according to a report from the Fayette County School System. Quarantine numbers also rose.
There were 54 total new Covid cases during the week of Jan. 23 through Jan. 29, an increase of 10 more cases than the previous week, the two weekly reports indicated.
The numbers of students and teachers in quarantine because of exposure rose from 357 to 479, a weekly increase of 122 students and staff members, the reports indicated.
But the numbers of schools reporting no new cases rose also. Five elementary schools had perfect marks during the past week: Peachtree City, North Fayette, Inman, Cleveland and Burch elementaries, compared to the four the previous week, according to the latest system report.
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Rising Starr Middle school nurse Tiffany Blair receives the Moderna Covid-19 vaccination from a nurse at the Fayette County Health Department. Photo/Fayette County School System.
School nurses have been key to keeping schools open since the fall and are on the front lines to get the Covid-19 vaccine in Phase 1a of Georgiaâs vaccine rollout plan, said a news release from the Fayette County School System.
On January 12, 24 â or 80 percent â of Fayette County Public Schoolsâ 30 nurses rolled up their sleeves at the Fayette County Health Department to take their first dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. School Health Services Coordinator Debbie King was the first nurse to receive the vaccine. As the school nurse coordinator, she said it was her responsibility to set the example for others.
Covid hits McIntosh HS with 30 cases, as 488 sidelined system-wide
McIntosh High School in Peachtree City is the hardest hit by Covid-19 with 30 students having tested positive in the new year, according to a chart released by the Fayette County School System.
On the other hand, no staff at McIntosh tested positive in the same period, making MHS one of only 7 schools out of 24 to have no staff infections the first week of 2021, the chart shows.
Other schools in double figures are Starr’s Mill High with 12 students and 1 staffer and Whitewater Middle with 10 students testing positive.
System-wide, 100 students and 40 staff members tested postive from Jan. 2 through Jan. 8, the chart shows.