County stays in red; meeting with community leaders on COVID upcoming

The Jefferson County Health Department has announced 104 new positive COVID-19 cases today (Sept. 29), including seven at long term-care facilities.

The Jefferson County Health Department announced 168 more positive COVID-19 cases since the last ones were reported Sept. 25.

The Jefferson County Health Department announced another COVID-19-related death today (Sept. 25) – a woman in her 70s at a long-term care facility.

The Fox C-6 School District is making plans to increase the number of days students in kindergarten through second grade may attend in-person classes from two to four.

The Jefferson County Health Department Board of Trustees voted 3-2 today (Sept, 24) to hold a special board meeting to discuss COVID-19 prevention measures, which could include limiting the size of groups that can gather and issuing a face mask mandate.

Dunklin R-5 School District Superintendent Clint Freeman witnessed firsthand how different school would be this year when he stopped by a Herculaneum High School Spanish class on the first day of school on Aug. 26 and an alarm on the teacher’s phone went off, signaling cleaning time.

The Jefferson County Health Department reported 66 new COVID-19 cases today, including three at long-term care facilities.

Students in the De Soto School District will have instruction four days a week rather than five starting Oct. 5.

Jefferson County Health Department officials decided today (Sept. 22) to move the county back to the red level on the agency’s four-color COVID-19 alert system, after the county spent the past week at the orange level.