Area schools report new COVID-19 cases, students and teachers quarantined

Published 9:41 am Tuesday, November 10, 2020

In Monday’s report to the Mississippi State Department of Health, local schools announced two new positive COVID-19 cases involving school personnel and 18 total students and teachers quarantined for possible exposure.

Currently, the state requires all schools and school districts to report COVID-19 activity from the previous week each Monday.

In the latest report, the Vicksburg Warren School District announced that two members of the school personnel at Warren Central High School had tested positive. The district also reported that four members of the school personnel at Warren Central Intermediate had been quarantined due to possible exposure.

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Vicksburg Catholic School Monday announced that 14 of its students had been quarantined due to possible exposure. As for Porter’s Chapel Academy, school officials said the school did not see any COVID-19 activity from the previous week.

About Tim Reeves

Tim Reeves, and his wife Stephanie, are the parents of three children, Sarah Cameron, Clayton and Fin, who all attend school in the Vicksburg Warren School District. The family are members of First Baptist Church Vicksburg. Tim is involved in a number of civic and volunteer organizations including the United Way of West Central Mississippi and serves on the City of Vicksburg's Riverfront Redevelopment Committee.

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