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By and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback&nbsp;—&nbsp;Georgia’s largest school district has confirmed that around 260 employees have either tested positive for or have been exposed.The (GCPS) employees won’t be returning to school just yet as continue to to prevent the spread ofthe virus.The situation in Gwinnett is fluid, GCPS spokeswoman Sloan Roach told CNN in an email Sunday evening.“As of last Thursday, we had approximately 260 employees who had been excluded from work due to a positive case or contact with a case,” Roach said. “This number is fluid as we continue to have new reports and others who are returning to work,” she added.The district – which is in the metro Atlanta area and is the largest in the school system in the state – is set to reopen with online learning on August 12.Despite the high case count and the confirmed community spread, some last week demanding that children be allowed to return to in-person learning.GCSD already had pushed the start date back to August 12, but until late July when the decision to only provide virtual learning was “due to the current Covid-19 situation in our county and the rising numbers of cases in Gwinnett County,” Roach explained.Roach did not say if the newly identified positive cases have changed the district’s reopening plans.There is already a reporting and tracing process in place as well as a protocol for excluding employees who test positive or come into contact with a confirmed case, Roach said.Roach said because of the tracing process the district determined that the majority of these 260 cases were the result of community spread. “We have people who have called in to report who have not been at school or work,” she said.Gwinnett County has the second highest rate of Covid-19 cases in the state, with 17,781 confirmed cases, according to More than 190,000 cases and 3,800 deaths have been reported in the state as of Monday morning.“Given the number of COVID cases in Gwinnett we would expect to see positives among our employees based on the community spread in our county,” Roach said.CNN’s Madeline Holcomb contributed to this report.Ad FeedbackAd FeedbackAd Feedback

By and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback&nbsp;—&nbsp;Georgia’s largest school district has confirmed that around 260 employees have either tested positive for or have been exposed.The (GCPS) employees won’t be returning to school just yet as continue to to prevent the spread ofthe virus.The situation in Gwinnett is fluid, GCPS spokeswoman Sloan Roach told CNN in an email Sunday evening.“As of last Thursday, we had approximately 260 employees who had been excluded from work due to a positive case or contact with a case,” Roach said. “This number is fluid as we continue to have new reports and...

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