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Woodstock High School closes after 14 confirmed COVID-19 cases

A second high school in Cherokee County was closed today and nearly 300 students and staff are quarantined after the district confirmed more than a dozen cases of COVID-19.

Woodstock High School will close to in-person learning until Aug. 31 for deep cleaning after the district said the number of confirmed coronavirus cases have climbed to 14, Cherokee County Schools Superintendent Dr. Brian Hightower said. Tests for an additional 15 students are pending, he added.

Hightower said 289 Woodstock students and staff are under quarantine and “should the pending tests prove positive, the total would significantly increase.”

Hightower’s Woodstock announcement follows the district’s decision to close Etowah High School after 14 positive coronavirus cases were confirmed. Results for another 15 students were pending, and 294 Etowah students and staff were in quarantine as of Tuesday. Etowah is also slated to reopen Aug. 31.

Etowah High School drew national attention last week after scores of students without masks were pictured shoulder to shoulder in a group photo on the first day of the fall semester.

Read more here or on ajc.com.

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