State health officer said 22 schools have reported COVID-19 cases so far

School districts in Corinth, Alcorn and Tupelo, which will start next week, are dealing with coronavirus cases.

Dobbs said that 22 different schools reported coronavirus cases so far.

He said 19 of the cases were among students and 15 were employees.

And just today , the superintendent of corinth schools confirmed another case of coronavirus.

Superintendent lee childress said this is the tenth person to test positive for coronavirus in the school district.

At last check, childress said staff is doing contact tracing to get an idea how many students will have to quarantine.

Right now 131 students are in quarantine because of the positive cases since school began two weeks ago.

Childress said the cases impacted corinth middle school, high school and elementary school.

Meanwhile, two kossuth students tested positive for the coronavirus.

The school district announced the new cases on its website.

The superintendent bill brand said one student tested positive at kossuth high and one student at kossuth middle.

Two biggersville students tested positive for coronavirus last week overall, brand said the active cases within the last two weeks includes five students, one instructional employee and three non-instructional employees.

Tupelo public schools confirmed they have a small number of coronavirus cases but the schools spokesperson gregg ellis said the cases are isolated and not on campus.

Students will not return to campus until wednesday.

The start date has nothing to do with the small cases of coronavirus.

Instead, superintendent dr. rob picou said teachers and principals need to work out certain protocols... plus the district is waiting on a delivery of thermal detectors,..

Picou said the pandemic slowed down a lot of shipments because vendors are working from home.

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