Surging COVID19 Cases Closes Largest School System Thursday And Friday

With a positive rate for COVID19 cases surging at more than 35 percent on Monday, officials with the region’s largest school district, are closing its doors Thursday and Friday of this week, to try and allow, both students and teachers to regroup while deep cleaning efforts continue in schools. Kingsport City Schools say surging cases of the Omicron Variant are causing staffing challenges making for inappropriate learning environments for the systems 71 hundred students.