LUCAS COUNTY, Ohio — Just about five days into the school year and Perrysburg School District is reporting 16 of its students have COVID-19, with 11 of those being elementary students.
At the same time, 81 students are at home quarantining.
"Today we're getting more reports of potentially positive students and need to do further contact tracing," said Perrysburg superintendent Tom Hosler.
Perrysburg isn't the only district reporting COVID-19 cases.
The latest data from Springfield Local Schools shows five students and one staff member have tested positive for COVID-19 since Aug. 1.
Toledo Public Schools are reporting cases as well. Data from Aug. 16-22 shows five students and seven employees with positive cases and 57 students at home quarantining.
In Washington Local Schools, the number is 15 total positive cases.
Superintendent Dr. Kadee Anstadt said 100 students had to quarantine Monday, but she adds that cases are calming down since the district's mask mandate went into place this week.
"Even yesterday we saw things, really. I mean, Monday was frenetic with the number of quarantines, because we were contact tracing still to back Friday. But yesterday we started to really see things settle down," said Anstadt.