Hillsboro City School has closed for the rest of the week due to to the amount of illness in the district. Students will return on Tuesday, January 5th. The district's Superintendent says the district will extend the first semester through January 8 and those students in grades 6-12 returning from virtual learning will need to return Monday January 11th.
In Highland County, Highland District Health reported 325 active cases in its Monday update. There’s now been 1,648 total cases documented in the county since the spring. Highland County’s COVID-related death toll is at 21.
77 new cases of coronavirus, including 60 confirmed and 17 probable, were reported by Fayette County Public Health on Monday. That makes a total of 334 active cases in Fayette County with more than 14-hundred total case recorded since March.
There are also currently 19 Fayette County COVID patients in the hospital with 125 total hospitalizations reported since the spring. Two more Fayette County residents have also died in connection to the virus increasing the county’s death toll to 24.