MONDAY UPDATES: Fatima School District to cancel classes for the rest of the week due to COVID
The Fatima School District reports in a post on Facebook the district is canceling classes for the rest of the week due to COVID-19.
The district reported Monday afternoon there are 12 junior high and high school students and 16 elementary school students that tested positive for the coronavirus. The district also reported six staff currently have COVID.
The district's Nichols Career Center students will still be attending this week.
However, the district is not planning on going virtual, according to a Facebook post.
The state of Missouri is reporting cases up more than 62% in Osage County over the past week. The county is No. 60 in per capita cases over that time. Boone County is No. 1 in that metric.
The Osage County Health Department last reported new coronavirus cases last Tuesday. The county reported 88 active coronavirus cases, 36 of them were breakthrough cases.
Fulton Public Schools cancels Tuesday classes due to staff shortages
Fulton Public Schools is canceling classes Tuesday due to staff shortages.
Officials say the district will evaluate the situation tomorrow, but there is a possibility that an individual building may be closed an additional day if required.
Scheduled student activities will continue at this time as long as staffing allows.
Callaway County had 248 active coronavirus cases Friday, according to the county health department. Active cases have increased by nearly 100 since Jan. 5, the department reports.
The school district had 87 active cases Friday and 158 students and staff in quarantine because of exposure. Active cases have increased from a total of nine on Dec. 16. Fulton Public Schools reported 18 new active cases each day Thursday and Friday.
New cases are up nearly 48% over the past week in Callaway County, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. The county is No. 8 in per capita cases over that time. Boone County is No. 1 in that metric.
State of Missouri reports over 16,000 new coronavirus cases over the weekend
The state of Missouri reported 20,154 new and probable coronavirus cases for Saturday. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services will not update the coronavirus dashboard for Sunday or Monday until Tuesday due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The state of Missouri’s daily average of new coronavirus cases has gone back up to a 7,565 seven-day average (52,598 confirmed cases from the previous week of reporting) as the state reports new coronavirus cases across the state according to state health department reporting. The daily average looks at the last seven days and doesn't account for the past three days, which will push that number even higher.
The state reported 16,105 new coronavirus cases through PCR testing and another 4,049 probable cases identified in antigen testing from Friday, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services coronavirus dashboard. Missouri has now reported 954,486 confirmed cases for the pandemic and more than 227,030 probable cases.
The state recorded four new deaths for 13,535 total and one probable death was added for a total of 3,079.
Missouri's new cases are down 9.9% over the past week, the state reports, as recent cases surge nationwide.
The rate of positive tests is 34.2% for the last week. A higher positivity suggests higher transmission and that there are likely more people with coronavirus in the community who haven’t been tested yet.
Cole (3), Callaway (8), Pettis (9), Osage (19), Boone (20), Miller (21), Moniteau (31) and Saline (37) counties are all in the top 40 Missouri counties in new cases per capita over the last week, according to state statistics.
The state reports that over 4.81% (a .01% decrease from last) of vaccinated Missourians have developed COVID-19 infections. The state is reporting 161,228 breakthrough cases out of 3,351,292 fully vaccinated people.
Experts continue to tout vaccination as the best tool to fight the wave of new cases.
Still, new vaccinations have effectively stalled in Missouri, with more boosters being given daily than first or second shots. The state reported Thursday that 54.6% of Missouri residents are fully vaccinated.
COVID-19 hospitalizations are also trending upward, with the state reporting 17% of total inpatient capacity and 15% of ICU capacity remaining. Those numbers are at 21% and 23% in Central Missouri, respectively.
