Dare County Schools plan to reduce meal delivery sites and frequency after a sixth case of coronavirus was documented inside its borders.
Meal delivery was suspended Monday with plans to resume Thursday, according to a release from the school system. Buses will no longer deliver the meals to sites in the community. The meals will be served only from elementary schools in Hatteras, Kill Devil Hills and Manteo and will only be available for pickup from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Meal packages will include enough breakfasts and lunches to cover the intervening days without delivery, the release said.
After schools closed last month to curtail the spread of the coronavirus, the county began March 24 serving 730 lunches and 440 breakfasts daily. Buses delivered the meals to 17 sites throughout the 88-mile long county.
The changes came over concerns about community spread of the virus within Dare County, the release said.
Dare County announced Sunday the sixth case of coronavirus. The person was a Dare County resident who tested positive in the county. Officials did not know how the resident was infected. The person may have contracted the virus from someone who did not show symptoms.
On Tuesday, the county announced four more cases. Five of the county’s 10 patients have recovered. Only one remains hospitalized, according to a Dare County release.
Jeff Hampton, 252-491-5272, jeff.hampton@pilotonline.com
