UNION COUNTY, N.C. — Union Academy Charter School is mandating masks for all students and staff for the next month after reporting eight positive COVID-19 cases, the school confirmed in a letter to parents.
The school was one of the first in the area to return and had originally made masks optional.
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As of Friday, nearly 100 students are also in quarantine, according to the letter.
School leaders said in the letter that if the mask mandate policy had been in place last week, the number of people required to quarantine would have only been the eight who tested positive instead of almost 100.
Everyone will have to wear masks starting Aug. 2 and will continue to do so until the next board meeting on Sept. 2.
The school said its decision was based on guidance from Gov. Roy Cooper, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and Union County public health officials.
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