Todd County Public Health Director Jen Harris says in-person instruction in public schools has continued to go well, with no confirmed spread of coronavirus in a school building.
There are five positive cases in the school district, but none of those were traced to being contracted in school. There are also 21 students, teachers or staff who are currently in quarantine, according to Harris, who notes some of those individuals are in virtual learning and haven’t been in a school building.
She believes the controlled school environment that requires masking is the reason the resumption of in-person learning has gone so well.
There has been some spread of the virus in churches, but Harris says only in churches where there isn’t widespread mask wearing.
She reminds that residents in quarantine or isolation can vote by designating a proxy to go and retrieve a ballot from the clerk’s office and then return it.
Harris recommends voting early before election day for everyone else to get it out of the way in case you should need to be isolated or quarantined between now and November 3.
She says the health department is seeing varying symptoms among their COVID positive patients, including: cough, loss of taste and smell, digestive issues, headaches and fever—though a high temperature isn’t extremely common.