4 Iredell County Schools Report COVID-19 Cases In One Week

IREDELL COUNTY, NC — Four schools in Iredell County reported cases of COVID-19 last week, according to Iredell-Statesville school district.

At least 143 school district faculty and staff — or about 6 percent — of employees of Iredell-Statesville Schools have been quarantined for COVID-19 since Aug. 10, the school district said Monday. As of Oct. 2, at least 39 positive COVID-19 cases were confirmed among school district faculty or staff.

During the week of Sept. 28, four schools reported positive COVID-19 cases, ISS said. Here is the listing of schools reporting positive COVID-19 cases in the past week:

Sept. 28

• Troutman Elementary — positive case, close contacts have been notified

Sept. 29

• West Iredell High School — positive case, close contacts have been notified

Sept. 30

• NB Mills Elementary School — positive case, close contacts have been notified

Oct. 1

• South Iredell High School — positive case, close contacts have been notified

The school district reports weekly the number of COVID-19 cases present in its schools, however, does not indicate if the cases are of students, teachers or staff.

As of Oct. 2, the number of COVID-19 cases in Iredell County rose to 3,206, an increase of 142 cases reported in the county in the span of a week. At least 41 deaths have been attributed to coronavirus in Iredell County since late March.

As of Friday, ICHD said 10 county residents remained hospitalized for COVID-19 illness.

North Carolina reported 219,754 confirmed coronavirus cases in the state Monday, which included 2,258 newly confirmed cases in the state since Sunday, according to data released Oct. 5 by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

Iredell County health officials group cases into three regions of the county: North, Central and South. Here's a breakdown of where cases have been confirmed as of 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2:

North Region (zip codes 27020, 27028, 27055, 28625, 28634, 28636, 28660, 28689 and 28678)

• 646 cases (up from 621 cases reported Sept. 25)

Central Region (zip codes 27013, 28166, 28677)

• 1,307 cases (up from 1,255 cases reported Sept. 25)

South Region (zip codes 28036, 28115, 28117, 28125)

• 1,253 cases (up from 1,188 cases reported Sept. 25)

Globally, more than 35.3 million people have been infected by COVID-19, and more than 1 million people have died, Johns Hopkins University reported Monday. In the United States, more than 7.4 million people have been infected and more than 209,900 people have died from COVID-19.

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