COVID cases at Massachusetts schools grow to 1,045 just days ahead of full in-person learning for grades K-5
Updated Apr 01, 2021;
Just days away from full-time in-person learning for K-5 students in Massachusetts, schools have reported 1,045 total new COVID-19 cases to education officials.
Those cases, detected from March 25 to 31, are among 801 students and 244 staff members, according to data from the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
This shows an increase from last week when DESE reported 910 new cases of the virus, split between 682 students and 228 staff members. The week prior, there were 669 total new cases.
Of the positives in this week’s report, 791 student cases and 228 staff cases were at local school districts, 6 student cases and 10 staff cases were at education collaboratives, and 4 student cases and 6 staff cases were at approved special education schools, per DESE data.
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