Local Schools Forced To Adapt As Omicron Surge Continues

By CBSLA Staff, CBS Los Angeles:

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — As the Coronavirus pandemic continues, local schools have been forced to adapt many times over the course of the last two years, and once again, students across the Southland are once again being forced to flip the script when it comes to their education.

Despite numbers that have seen a slight decrease over the weekend, with the Los Angeles County Department of Health reporting a plateauing daily positivity rate and a decrease in daily case counts, with just 26,354 cases reported on Sunday, nearly half the total reported a week prior – 43,838.

Thousands of those students will be returning to class for in-person learning after UCLA and USC both announced new dates for their returns to campus, after both universities decided that their Spring semesters were to begin online.

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