August 23rd, 2024 by WCBC Radio

As a new school year begins, there is concern about an increase in COVID cases for students and their families. 

Allegany County Schools Superintendent Jeff Blank says schools will be following the County Health Department guidelines in order to reduce the spread of COVID…

 

“Students who are positive for Covid-19 should stay home and away from others until they have both an improvement in their symptoms who are positive for Covid return to school, they need the added precaution of wearing a mask for 5 days. So, when a student has tested positive for Covid, those are the directions from the Health Department that we will implement.”and they are fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medications.  And when students