Texas school district to require masks after nearly 800 students in quarantine

A Texas schoolhouse territory present requires its students to deterioration masks aft it reported that astir 800 of its students were successful quarantine aft being exposed to COVID-19.

The determination comes aft the Lockhart Independent School District committee voted 5-2 Saturday to enforce the disguise request wrong each buildings and schoolhouse buses.

In a statement, Superintendent Mark Estrada said the territory presently has 204 progressive cases of COVID, with 181 of those cases being students.

Estrada said the territory has already had to adjacent 4 classes and a pupil programme aft 20% oregon much students were diagnosed with the virus.

"We expect determination volition beryllium a request to adjacent much classes successful the coming weeks, and if immoderate field should scope 10% oregon much of students campus-wide who are diagnosed with COVID-19, the territory whitethorn request to statesman closing campuses arsenic well, transitioning students to online learning during the impermanent field closure," Estrada said successful the statement.

LISD isn't the archetypal territory successful Texas to necessitate everyone to deterioration a mask.

According to Scripps sister presumption KXXV, the Connally Independent School District said opening Tuesday, masks would beryllium required aft they temporarily closed pursuing the decease of 2 teachers who died of the coronavirus.