School divisions in Hampton Roads are monitoring the coronavirus and taking proactive measures. School districts in Newport News, Hampton, York County and Williamsburg-James City County are all working closely with local health departments for guidance or actions. In Newport News, school officials are reviewing its communicable disease protocols and will update them with guidance from the Virginia Department of Health to address the coronavirus....
Call it fear, hysteria or just a prudent conviction that local institutions must be ready -- but a local response to the coronavirus threat is taking shape.