(CNN) A 13-year-old Mississippi girl has died just one day after testing positive for coronavirus, according to Smith County School District Superintendent Nick Hillman. The girl wasn't feeling well last Thursday and her mother kept her home, Hillman said. According to Hillman, she died early Saturday while being airlifted to a Jackson-area hospital. "It was just sort of a shocker to everyone," Hillman told CNN. The girl was an eighth grader at Raleigh High School in the town of Raleigh, where she was an honor student and played in the band.

Source: CNN August 17, 2021 21:22 UTC