Since Hall County instated their temporary mask mandate, which has now been lifted for all but one school, COVID-19 cases have decreased by nearly half and quarantines have decreased by more than 60 percent.
At the height of COVID-19 cases so far this school year, which was on Sept. 3, the Hall County School District saw 385 COVID-19 cases, 609 HCSD students, faculty and staff in quarantine, and 1,073 exposed individuals.
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The school district has allowed students that may have come into contact with COVID-19 the option to continue attending school in person if they wear a mask at all times and consent to temperature checks.
As of the district’s most recent update, the amount of COVID-19 cases have decreased 49.6 percent, from 385 cases on Sept. 3 down to 194. Quarantines are down 61.2 percent, from 609 to 236, and exposed individuals are down 67.8 percent, from 1,073 to 345.
North Hall Middle School is currently the only school continuing the school district’s temporary mask mandate, which is scheduled to end on Friday the 17. Currently, the school has eight student COVID-19 cases, with 25 in quarantine.
The school district updates its COVID-19 information daily; the data is available on their website.
