Reitz High School have had seven new cases this week according to the state health department dashboard.
There have been 21 student cases of COVID-19 since school began.
More Than Two Dozen EVSC Schools Have Had Positive COVID-19 Cases
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And with those cases rising in vanderburgh county-- parents are now relying on school dashboards to monitor new cases-- but it is causing some confusion.
44news reporter tyler druin is live in evansville with the story.
That dashboard reveals more than two dozen evsc schools had confirmed cases of covid-19 within the school population.
Late wednesday night - the indiana department of health launched a school dashboard page - calculating the number of students - teachers- and staff members positive for covid-19 ?
The majority of our schools actually do not have any cases in some instances we have had a very short or small number of case?
In fact - there are 40 schools with in evsc- within the last 24 hours- nearly 30 evsc schools reported positive cases to the state?if you have less than five cases in a school it will be suppressed and actually say less than five without giving a specific number, which we definitely appreciat?
Of those - only 11 evsc schools reported zero cases?at this point it is not a legal requirement the department of health has certainly asked all school systems and all school districts in the state to participate the evansville vanderburgh school corporation has said all along that we would participat?
Reitz high school - reporting 7 new student cases - 21- so far this school year and fewer than 10 cases among faculty or staff?
If we have a positive case we have covid teams that are trained in everyone of our 40 schools and they conduct a very thorough contact tracing proces?
Harrison- central - bosse and north high schools all reporting 5 cases or less the evsc would not go on the record to confirm the number of students faculty or staff currently under quarantine restrictions reporting live in evansville - tyler druin 44news.
Kentucky launched a similar tool
