Original title: Only one week after school started, over 8,000 teachers and students in a school district in Florida were quarantined due to the new crown
Chinanews.com, August 18th. According to comprehensive US media reports, the new crown virus spread rapidly in a school district in Florida, USA, just a week after school started. Patients who are infected with the new crown or have been in contact with the new crown are told to be isolated or quarantine.
Hillsboro County school district officials said that on the 17th local time, the number of students, faculty and staff in the school district who were quarantined due to infection or contact with patients with the new crown soared to 8,707. 1,600 students and staff have tested positive.
The school district board stated in a statement on the 16th that an emergency meeting will be held on the afternoon of the 18th to discuss the new crown epidemic and response strategies, including whether to “mandatory all students and employees to wear masks”.
Hillsboro School District is the third university district in Florida and the eighth university district in the United States. There are 208,000 students who will officially return to school on August 10.
School district officials announced in early August that they would require students to wear masks in the new school year. However, according to the ban on mandatory masks issued by Governor DeSantis of Florida, parents can choose not to comply with this requirement for any reason.
Hillsborough School District spokesperson Alya said that as of August 12, public schools in the county had received 27,915 applications for not wearing a mask.
According to data compiled by the Washington Post, Florida’s daily number of new cases and hospitalizations continues to set new records. The average daily number of new cases exceeds 21,700, and the number of new crown hospitalized patients exceeds 16,800, accounting for the total number of hospitalizations in the country. Nearly one-fifth of it.
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