State superintendent: 8th-grade student, Grove teacher among recent COVID-19 deaths

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OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma 8th-grader and a Grove teacher are among immoderate of the latest COVID-19 deaths successful the nationalist acquisition community, according to State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister.

Hofmeister mentioned the deaths portion talking astir the surge successful microorganism cases Thursday greeting arsenic students person returned to classrooms this month.

"The Delta variant is surging done communities and schools are nary objection to that," Hofmeister says.

"Many districts are seeing hundreds of affirmative cases."

The State of Oklahoma inactive has a prohibition connected disguise mandates successful place, but immoderate districts person bypassed that prohibition by giving parents an enactment to opt their kids retired of the requirements.

Hofmeister says 640,000 Oklahoma students are unvaccinated either due to the fact that they're not aged capable to beryllium eligible, oregon for immoderate different reason.

She says those rules bypassing the disguise mandate prohibition are giving the unvaccinated a "fighting chance" astatine protecting themselves.

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