MCSD Releases Weekly COVID-19 Data For Muscogee County Schools

COLUMBUS- The Muscogee County School District has released their weekly updated COVID-19 data for Columbus-area schools. The number show there are still active COVID-19 cases within the school district but the district is not reporting any significant increases over the past weeks numbers.

Data released by MCSD on Friday, September 3, 2021 shows that there are currently 146 in-person positive cases within the Muscogee County School District. In addition there are 971 students in self-quarantine or isolation due to COVID-19.

The numbers in both areas are down compared to number released on Friday, August 27, 2021. For the week that ended on August 27 there were 174 in-person cases in Muscogee County Schools and 1,197 students on quarantine or isolation.

The data shows that school based employees reported 20 positive cases and 30 school based employees on self-quarantine or isolation. Those numbers too were down over the past week. The previous week showed 27 school based positive cases and 48 employees on quarantine.

Muscogee County Schools have not shown a significant number of cases in any of their reports since the academic year began. As week three wraps up the district did report a decline in a overall cases and quarantine numbers.