Due to COVID-19, Bedford County schools will not have any students in classrooms as of Thursday. Classes will be conducted online only until Dec. 18, when the winter break starts. The district plans to reopen schools on Jan. 5. In the last seven days 30 Bedford County school age children tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Tennessee Health Department. ...
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Due to COVID-19, Bedford County schools will not have any students in classrooms as of Thursday. Classes will be conducted online only until Dec. 18, when the winter break starts. The district plans to reopen schools on Jan. 5.
In the last seven days 30 Bedford County school age children tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Tennessee Health Department. The state reports the daily number of school age children (5 to 18 years old) in each county but does not list whether they are in public schools.
The deaths of eight Bedford County residents in the last seven days were attributed to the coronavirus, according to the health department. Statewide, the deaths of 100 people were attributed to COVID-19 on Dec. 8. In the last seven days, the state says, 471 Tennesseans died due to the coronavirus.
In the last seven days, the state reports conducting 929 tests in Bedford County that revealed 296 new cases of the coronavirus, a positivity rate of 22.17 percent.
Statewide in the last seven days (from Dec. 2 through Dec. 8) 568 Tennesseans were hospitalized with COVID-19. The average daily number of Tennesseans hospitalized during the last week was 12,458. Five weeks earlier the average was 10,531.
