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Georgia is another flu hot spot in the Southeast. Polk School District in Georgia closed all schools and facilities last Friday and Monday due to a surge of flu and norovirus, which sickened 761 ...
Texas parents, students and school employees are facing disruptions as some districts temporarily close or alter operations amid the COVID-19 surge.
Schools were closed in a two-week extension of holidays in spring 2020. In 2021, schools were closed from 19 May until the start of the new academic year on 1 September. This second period of nationwide closures was due to a spike in domestic COVID-19 cases. [287] [288] Thailand: 12,990,728: 2,410,713 [27] Trinidad and Tobago: 260,439: 16,751
State-wide ordinances for school closures began on March 16, 2020, and by March 24, 2020, all states had closed schools until further notice. [2] In the interest of public health, school closures for the COVID-19 pandemic were used to curb transmission of the disease and encourage social distancing, much like in the past with Swine Flu and MRSA ...
The United States experienced the beginnings of a pandemic of a novel strain of the influenza A/H1N1 virus, commonly referred to as "swine flu", in the spring of 2009.The earliest reported cases in the US began appearing in late March 2009 in California, [114] then spreading to infect people in Texas, New York, and other states by mid-April. [115]
On Monday, nearly half of Polk County schools reported at least 5% student absences due to respiratory illnesses, according to local public health officials. Absences rising in Polk County schools ...
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Schools closed in many states in response to local flu outbreaks. By April 30, 2009, 300 U.S. schools and school districts had announced closures in response to the outbreak, giving 169,000 students time off. [198] On May 4, 2009, about 533 schools in 24 states in the U.S. were closed, affecting about 330,000 students. [199]