Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pike continue to drop, with 15 cases over the past two weeks, compared to 22, 24, 28, 41, 89 and 93 in the previous two week periods. Pike County has had 1,006 confirmed cases since last March with 23 deaths, 11 probable deaths and 67 hospitalizations.
Pike County schools have seen considerably fewer cases of COVID-19 in the past several weeks as well. As of March 12, there were three positive students, no positive adults and only four quarantined students with no quarantined adults. Seventy students returned from quarantined. Since the start of school, there have been a total of 193 COVID-19 positive students and 84 positive adults in the school system with 2,414 students quarantined and 187 adults quarantined.