Latest School System Report Shows Rise in Covid-19 Cases

The weekly Stephens County School System Covid-19 report is showing a rise in cases for the week ending November 6, 2020. The report is as follows:

5 staff members with a positive Covid-19 test.

3 staff members quarantined at home.

150 students quarantined at home.

4 students with a positive Covid-19 test.

3,929 students currently enrolled in-person and virtually.

536 current employees.

Again, these numbers represent current active cases as of 11/6/20 and are not a running total.

As reported on Thursday, the Stephens County-Hart County game scheduled for tonight was canceled due to positive cases within the SCHS program.

The Georgia Department of Public Health is reporting three more positive cases of Covid-19 in Stephens County bringing the total to 1311 and 43 deaths due to complications of Covid-19 since the beginning of the global pandemic.

The latest report was released Friday afternoon.

The latest report now has Habersham County with 76 deaths, two less than Thursday’s report, and now 1,936 total positive cases of the virus.

In other neighboring counties, Hart County is now reporting 18 deaths and now 615 cases, Franklin County has had a total of 18 deaths and now 997 positive cases,  Rabun County is still  reporting 11 deaths and now 447 cases, and Banks County is now reporting 9 deaths, and now 591 cases.

Across the state of Georgia, the Department of Public Health is now reporting a total of 370,106 cases, of those, 32,317 have been hospitalized and 8,156 have died from complications of the virus.