At least 17 Ohio high school students tested positive for coronavirus after a recent trip to Myrtle Beach, when they returned to a county that had previously reduced infection rates to zero.
Robert Sproul, Deputy Health Commissioner of the Belmont County Health Department, tells CNN that nearly 100 students from the Ohio Valley traveled to the South Carolina town and returned the weekend of June 13. The trip was not a school sanctioned event.As of Tuesday afternoon, the Belmont Health Department confirmed the 17 positive cases as well as two contact positives -- people who were exposed to the students that went on the trip and tested positive.
Before this spike in cases, Belmont County had reduced infection rates to zero, Sproul said, attributing the county's then-success to residents taking state-imposed restrictions seriously.Read More"We've been quarantined for so long, the state had a travel ban in place, and our numbers were weakened," he said and described earlier Covid-19 patients as"elderly" whereas county health officials say the youngest person on the trip to Myrtle Beach was 16.
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