Coronavirus: Clark, Champaign school district cases drop below 40

Tecumseh Middle School office. CONTRIBUTED

Tecumseh Middle School office. CONTRIBUTED

Nine Clark County and two Champaign County school districts reported new cases of COVID-19, according to the Ohio Department of Health’s COVID-19 school district dashboard’s latest update.

In total, 38 students and staff cases were reported between the two counties on Thursday, a decrease from the total of 83 cases from two weeks ago that was recorded from the week of Dec. 15-21.

The school districts that reported student and staff cases are as follow:

Clark-Shawnee: three students, one staff

Emmanuel Christian Academy: three students

Global Impact STEM Academy: one student

Graham: two students, one staff

Greenon: two students, two staff

Northeastern: six students, one staff

Northwestern: one student

Springfield: one student, four staff

Springfield CTC: one student, one staff

Tecumseh: two students, two staff

Urbana: four students

Cases reported on the dashboard lag one week, meaning cases reported on Thursday were from the week of Dec. 29-Jan. 4.

The dashboard was not updated for the week of Dec. 22-28.

The dashboard tracks cases of COVID-19 in all public and private K-12 schools across the state. Data displayed on the board includes all student and staff cases broken into two categories: new and cumulative. The board is updated every Thursday.

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