
The district continues to see new cases and quarantines as experts say the delta variant is infecting more children than past variants. The highest numbers of cases and quarantines are in elementary schools. Eighteen of the district's 21 elementary schools are affected along with six of seven middle schools and all four high schools. The district reported 64 active coronavirus cases, up from 59 on Thursday. Columbia, Mexico school districts report hundreds in coronavirus quarantineĬolumbia and Mexico public schools are each reporting hundreds of students in quarantine because of coronavirus exposure.Ĭolumbia Public Schools reported 416 students in coronavirus quarantine Friday morning, up from 367 on Thursday. The district reports 190 elementary students are currently quarantining, 152 students in middle school, 55 students in high school and 22 at other district facilities. There are 416 students, which are required to quarantine due to the coronavirus, an increase of 49 students. The district is reporting 34 students in elementary, 13 students in middle school, 15 students in High School and two at a districtwide facility have tested positive for the coronavirus. There are 64 students that have tested positive for COVID-19, an increase of five from Thursday. There are 18 out of 21 elementary, six middle schools and all four high schools and three districtwide facilities affected. The district reports 31 district facilities to have students currently out due to the coronavirus. The district has 10 staff currently quarantined because of COVID. There is six staff at elementary and two staff at the high school level have tested positive for the coronavirus. The city of Joplin has 54.5% of the population fully vaccinated.ĬPS reports 12 district facilities (five elementary schools, one middle school, three high schools and three other district facilities) currently have staff out because of COVID-19. Louis County is the second county in the state with 50.1% of residents have completed the doses for vaccination. Louis County with 56%.īoone County is first in the state with a reported 51.1% of residents that have completed their coronavirus vaccine doses.

The second closest county in the state is St. Boone County has the largest percentage of county residents in Mid-Missouri that have received at least one dose of the vaccine with 56.7 %. The Missouri coronavirus vaccine dashboard reports that 102,402 residents have received their first dose in Boone County and 92,271 Boone County residents have completed their vaccine doses. Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services Sept. Of those, 22 are in intensive care and nine are on ventilators. The health department's hospital status remains green, with 100 COVID-19 patients in Boone County hospitals and 23 of them being Boone County residents.
