Garvin County experiencing surge in COVID-19

Garvin County has experienced a surge in COVID-19 cases in the last two weeks, causing area schools and churches to cancel classes and activities and in some cases return to virtual learning and online services.

Stratford, Elmore City-Pernell and Whitebead Schools all canceled classes or moved to virtual learning at the end of last week due to illness, and Pauls Valley Schools moved to virtual lear…