More than a dozen Ohio high school students have tested positive for COVID-19 after returning from a trip to Myrtle Beach, health officials said Monday.
WMBF rerportedRobert Sproul, the administrator of the Belmont County Health Department in Ohio, said 91 high school students from the Ohio/West Virginia area recently visited Myrtle Beach on vacation. Belmont County is about an hour, or 70 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.
Of the 45 students on the Ohio side, 14 have tested positive for COVID-19 since coming back from the Grand Strand around June 14, Sproul said. He added the rest are currently being tested.
Sproul said cases in Belmont County had been trending down to one a day, or sometimes no new cases reported in a day.
“And then this weekend happened,” he said.