With our county’s positivity rate increasing today to 5.2%, we have returned our Smart and Safe School Reopening Guidance to Yellow after one week at Green. The Yellow phase recommends K-12 schools offer hybrid instruction and includes no all-school activities at the elementary level and no high-risk activities at the middle school and high school levels.
LDCPH Director Dan Partridge said while the 14-day moving average of the positivity rate increased slightly in the past week, the total number of tests in the most recent 14-day period dropped to about 3,300 total tests from an earlier average of around 4,000 tests, which could affect the positivity rate.
“We believe our community continues to do a good job with masking and social distancing to help prevent the spread of the virus in our community – particularly with what we are seeing in communities in other areas of the state and region,” Partridge said. “But we also want to encourage anyone who believes they are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms — even if you don’t know you were potentially exposed — to get tested. With more recently relaxed testing protocols, we can now offer tests to anyone experiencing only one potential COVID-19 symptom.”
LDCPH Coronavirus Hotline 785-856-4343