COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– Three new cases of measles in the Upstate has been confirmed by the department of health, according to officials.

The new cases bring the total of cases in South Carolina related to the Upstate outbreak to 52, and it brings the total reported to DPH this year to 55.

Based on contact tracing from the most recent new cases, DPH is reporting there are now 137 people in quarantine and one in isolation.

Fifty-seven of those are individuals from Lyman Elementary, 55 are from Boiling Springs Middle School, and one attends D.R. Hill Middle School.

Students from those schools who quarantine successfully without developing symptoms are scheduled to be able to return to classes Nov. 29., says SCDPH.

South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) is also alerting the publ

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