Oregon schools closed through academic year due to virus

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Gov. Kate Brown said Wednesday that Oregon’s K-12 schools will remain closed though the end of the academic year due to the coronavirus outbreak, placing the state’s more than 550,000 students and their teachers in uncharted territory as districts with vastly different resources plan for weeks of remote learning.

Oregon has had more than 1,200 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 38 deaths, according to the Oregon Health Authority. Those numbers inlude five new deaths and 58 new cases announced Wednesday.

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