Five students at the Franklin Academy charter school in Wake Forest have tested positive for coronavirus in the past week, putting more than 200 others in quarantine.
Wake Forest, N.C. — Five students at the Franklin Academy charter school in Wake Forest have tested positive for coronavirus in the past week, putting more than 200 others in quarantine. Across Wake County, at least eight students at Turner Creek Road Elementary School in Cary have been infected, forcing dozens of others in quarantine. Parents are starting to demand that school officials make some adjustments before even more students return to class next month. North Carolina has reported more than 3,100 coronavirus infections statewide both Thursday and Friday, the first time that’s happened in more than five months. Health officials say the highly contagious Delta variant of the virus is fueling the rapid increase in cases. «As a parent, it scares me,» the mother of a Franklin Academy fourth-grader told WRAL News on Friday.
