NC Emergency Management COVID-19 update as of Monday, March 16

The North Carolina Emergency Management, along with NC Department of Public Safety and NC Department of Health and Human Services, released the following slide deck today with the latest COVID-19 information. As of 11:00 a.m. there were 33 confirmed cases in NC with some of them in Wayne, Craven, Onslow, Wilson and other counties. None were reported in Lenoir, Greene or Jones Counties.

Note: The State of NC has held a call with “superintendents to provide guidance on the school closure period and to encourage districts to use these two weeks to develop plans for remote and distance learning in the event that we will need to close schools for a longer period.”