Public school COVID numbers effective January 20

Here are the latest COVID-19 numbers reported by the tracking page kept by the Oconee School District.  Effective yesterday (January 20), a total of 16 cases of the virus — ten students, six employees.  The Seneca Middle School and the Ravenel Elementary School both had four new cases.  Three more of the school district’s younger classes have been sent home:  A 5-K class at Walhalla’s Brown Elementary and a pre-school intervention class at Ravenel have been given February 1 return dates; a 5-K Ravenel class, return date of January 25.