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Map of coronavirus SC: An analysis of COVID-19 cases by county and postal code
Greenville County Schools must have students one day a week
Greenville County Schools students will start the year by attending schools one day a week due to the high spread of coronavirus cases in the community, the district announced on Monday.
Students will do e-Learning for the other four days based on their surnames.
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SC education agency will approve some plans to reopen every two weeks
On Monday, the South Carolina Department of Education approved plans to reopen all 81 school districts, along with plans submitted by the governor’s two residential schools.
But school districts with reopening schedules based on the spread of the coronavirus will have to get their plans approved every two weeks, the agency announced.
Greenville County schools are a district in the state that will announce their fall schedule every week for two weeks, depending on the spread of the coronavirus in the county. If the spread is high, the district said students will learn remotely or attend in person one day a week.
Previously, Greenville and other districts with similar plans were approved by the state on the condition that they must have a face-to-face option for students by September 14.
The state department changed that guideline on Monday to say that the plans were approved, but must be re-approved every two weeks.
SC exceeds 100,000 COVID-19 boxes
On Monday, DHEC announced 718 new confirmed cases and 17 additional confirmed deaths. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 100,431 and confirmed deaths to 1,966.
The total number of individual test results reported to DHEC yesterday across the state was 5,610 (not including antibody tests) and the positive percentage was 12.8%.
As of this morning, 2,467 hospital beds are available and 7,958 are in use, which represents a rate of use of hospital beds of 76.34% across the state. Of the 7,958 hospital beds currently used, 1,353 are occupied by patients with a positive test or who are under investigation for COVID-19. Of 1,539 ventilators, 487 are in use and 217 of them are COVID-19 patients. Of the 1,059 ICU beds in use today, 360 are occupied by COVID-19 patients.
Governor McMaster wants to release details of COVID-19 cases in SC schools
Governor Henry McMaster wants South Carolina public health officials to disclose details of the COVID-19 cases involving students and state school officials.
“Disclosure of this information is in the public interest and will ensure that parents, teachers and the public have accurate and reliable information,” McMaster said in a letter Monday to the chairman of the state Department of Health and Environmental Control.
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COVID-19 sweeps the entire Upstate SC family
When the coronavirus came to fetch his family, they turned his home into an improvised hospital. They sought advice from friends and acquaintances, including a nurse, a paramedic and an emergency physician.
Sarai Bautista Perez, his younger siblings and parents took turns taking care of each other, depending on who felt better. They tried to drink lots of fluids and monitor their health with surveillance, even using an oxygen sensor sent by mail.
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Here’s what to know Monday
- South Carolina is expected to reach 100,000 confirmed cases and 2,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 on Monday, after weekend updates from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control brought these totals to just a few hundred cases. . According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 13 states had topped 100,000 cases by Saturday.
- Over the weekend, DHEC also launched a new campaign, “Fight the Spread”, based on evidence that increasingly suggests that there is a high rate of infection among people who are asymptomatic but infectious to others. It encourages southern Carolinians to do things like wear masks, practice social detachment, avoid group meetings and wash their hands frequently.
- On Friday, the South Carolina Department of Commerce released a list of high-profile events with special permission to continue during the pandemic, including several within the state.
- Dr. Linda Bell said in June emails that Governor Henry McMaster’s team deceived the public into believing that she supported the Republican Governor’s decision in May to allow restaurants to resume dinner service and barber shops and other businesses to reopen. , informed the state on Saturday.
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Parents asked our journalists what will happen if their children receive COVID-19 when they return to school. Here is the guidance on this from DHEC.
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On May 20, McMaster said that youth attractions, such as playgrounds and water parks, could reopen. In Spartanburg, the parks reopened three months later than planned.
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During a press conference at the end of last week, after Clemson Football’s first practice for the fall, Dabo Swinney expressed that he is confident and relieved after the team’s scare with COVID-19.
- As employees begin returning to the Clemson campus before the fall semester, the university has announced six additional weeks of employee drive-thru tests and random tests for off-campus students.
- In a Friday message to students and staff, Clemson Pres. James Clements said graduation for graduates in the spring and summer will be postponed again. He also gave more information about what the class will be teaching this year.
- The University of South Carolina continues to consider all of its options regarding fan participation in football games this fall, as COVID-19 remains a very fluid influencer.