Ga.'s largest school district....

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Only has 260 employees who have tested positive.....so far....

Hundreds of employees in Georgia's largest school district have either tested positive for COVID-19 or have been exposed to the virus, officials said.

Gwinnett County Public School teachers gathered for in-person pre-planning Wednesday at 141 facilities across the county, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. The next day about 260 employees were "excluded from work" due to coronavirus.

The district, which is scheduled to reopen on August 12, has a reporting and tracing process in addition to the protocol for excluding employees who test positive or come into contact with a confirmed case Sloan Roach, a spokeswoman for the district told CNN.

"As of last Thursday, we had approximately 260 employees who had been excluded from work due to a positive case or contact with a case," Roach told the outlet. "This number is fluid as we continue to have new reports and others who are returning to work."

Roach said the tracing process determined that the majority of these cases were contracted through community spread.

The district pushed back its start date to August 12 after announcing it would allow parents to choose between in-person or online instruction for their children for the first semester of the 2020-21 school year. But Gwinnett County Superintendent Alvin Wilbanks announced in late July that the 180,000-student district in suburban Atlanta will only offer online classes.

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