Lowndes County School District to remain closed on Monday and Tuesday

LOWNDES COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – Lowndes County School District will be closed on Monday and Tuesday.

The district is closing schools in order to gather more information and seek guidance moving forward concerning COVID-19.

Superintendent Sam Allison said the main issue driving the decision was that so many students and staff traveled over spring break.

“Hopefully Monday we’ll come up with hey, this is our plan moving forward, and it may be as simple as just looking at the Centers for Disease Control and their website,” said Allison. “I felt like coming off spring break we needed two days to make the best decisions for our students. It was not so much of a scare because we don’t have the cases here, but we know that could happen and start spreading very quickly, and I wanted us to be as proactive as we could.”

The district will use the two days to relay the best information on who could possibly be at risk for infection and who needs to remain home and for how long.