Students at this NC school district must wear masks after the holiday break. Here's why.

A large school system near Charlotte has mandated mask-wearing again after hundreds of students were reported isolated with COVID-19 symptoms over the past week.

The Iredell-Statesville school board voted this week to reimpose mask wearing when students return from the holiday break on Jan. 5. Students are in class until Dec. 22.

Only students with a mask waiver on file at their school will be exempt, the board voted Monday.

“The mask mandate is a result of large numbers of students having to be excluded from school as a result of close contact” with someone with COVID, according to a news release Tuesday by Boen Nutting, Iredell-Statesville Schools’ chief of strategic planning and student services.

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(Raleigh News & Observer)