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Health officials in Buncombe County have identified a COVID-19 cluster at a middle school.
Buncombe County Health and Human Services and Buncombe County Schools said seven cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in connection to Reynolds Middle School. Sign up for our Newsletters
These seven cases are linked which classifies them as a cluster per the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. A “cluster” is defined as five or more plausibly linked cases over a 14-day period.
The process of contact tracing was performed through BCHHS and all school-related close contacts have been identified and notified individually and given further guidance regarding testing and quarantine. Due to privacy requirements, health officials could not release the names of the individuals or details that may identify them.
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Buncombe County s COVID-19 metrics keep improving and vaccination efforts keep gaining steam, but officials worry that good news will lull residents into relaxing safety measures.
Updating the county Board of Commissioners March 16, Public Health Director Stacie Saunders laid out the latest good news, but stressed that the stats only improve if folks keep up with the 3Ws and limiting interactions.
Vaccine efforts are already having a positive impact in the community, she said, and other key indicators are either improving or staying steady. Seeing our trends come back into a more favorable area is welcomed, but it does worry me just a little that folks will see all this green and become complacent, Saunders said, referring to the metric dashboard that rates those numbers by color.