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Ridgefield, CT
News
Covid-
19: Classes Canceled At School In Fairfield County After Positive Case
A Fairfield County school was forced to cancel classes due to a staffing shortage brought on by a COVID-19 case. The Luis Munoz Marin School in Bridgeport canceled classes on Monday, Sept. 21 after a positive COVID-19 case was identified over the weekend the district announced as it began the process of contact tracing anyone who came into contact with the infected individual. Following the positive case, the district said too many teachers called in sick to hold classes on Monday, and there has been a dearth of substitute teachers during the COVID-19 outbreak. Students returned to class o…
Massapequa, NY
News
Covid-
19: New Long Island School District Goes To Remote Learning After Student Tests Positive
A Long Island high school has closed temporarily and transitioned to a remote learning model after a student tested positive for COVID-19. The student at Harborfields High School in Greenlawn tested positive for the virus over the weekend, the district announced. In response, the building will be closed through Tuesday, Sept. 22 for sanitizing and a deep cleaning while all high school students switch to full remote learning. Contact tracing has already started, and parents of students who may have come into “close contact” with the infected student will be reached by health officials and …
Torrington, CT
News
Covid-
19: Sacred Heart University Quarantines Entire Dorm; Quinnipiac Reports First Case
The COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to spread around college campuses in Connecticut. Sacred Heart University in the Town of Fairfield announced it would be expanding a previous quarantine order to an entire residence hall due to a mislabeled COVID test that prevented the school from identifying which student tested positive. There have been at least five confirmed COVID cases - including two new ones - in Merton Hall, prompting the decision to have the students temporarily quarantine and transition to remote learning. According to the school, the students will remain in their rooms except…
West Milford, NJ
Schools
Covid-
19: Passaic County High School Reports 4 Cases
A high school in Passaic County temporarily switched to remote learning after four COVID-19 cases were reported. Three students and one staff member of Pompton Lakes High School tested positive, Mayor Michael Serra said in a Facebook post. This brings the total number of cases in Pompton Lakes to 255, Serra said. "The student cases seem to be related to an outside of school event where all the children were together," the mayor said. "All individuals are isolating at home and, thankfully, all feeling fine." The students' exposure likely occurred over Labor Day Weekend, according to S…
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Schools
Covid-
19: Numbers Continue To Climb In Morris County Area Following Labor Day Bash
The number of coronavirus cases linked to a Morris County Labor Day party has nearly doubled, township officials said. At least eight confirmed COVID-19 cases are linked to the Chatham Borough party, and as of Wednesday, another nine new cases in the Chathams were confirmed, Township Mayor Michael Kelly said. The new cases brought the six-day total to 21, he said. Chatham high schoolers were switched to remote learning after 12 of them had tested positive for the virus. It was unclear exactly how many of the new cases reported Wednesday were students. The high school went all-r…
Mount Pleasant, NY
News
Covid-
19: New Positive Case Confirmed At High School In Westchester
There has been a newly confirmed COVID-19 case at a school district in Westchester. The Mamaroneck School District announced that one person at the high school tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, Sept. 14, though the person wasn't in the building on Tuesday, Sept. 15. Earlier story - COVID-19: Positive Case Reported At School District In Westchester Due to privacy laws, the district is not permitted to say whether the positive case was a student or staff member. The positive COVID-19 case was confirmed by the state Health Department’s Schools COVID-19 “Report Card.” Rela…
Brookfield, CT
News
Covid-
19: New Positive Case Confirmed At School District In Fairfield County
There has been another newly confirmed COVID-19 case in a Fairfield County school district. Hillcrest Middle School Principal Bryan Rickert confirmed that there was a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis in Trumbull, though he did not disclose whether it was a student or staff member, citing privacy laws. The person with COVID-19 was last in the school building on Tuesday, Sept. 15. Rickert said that contact tracing began immediately, and any student who came into close contact with the person will be alerted on Wednesday, Sept. 16, while the building has been sanitized by the school’s custodians.…
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
News
Covid-
19: Morris County Elementary School Reports Positive Case
One of the seven elementary schools in the Morris school district reported a positive COVID-19 case, less than one week after classes started. District officials did not reveal whether the case at Hillcrest Elementary School came from a student, staff or faculty member. The individual had not been in school since Sept. 9, the district website said. Health investigations and contact tracing determined that the person who tested positive did not pick the virus up at the elementary school nor any other Morris School District building. Teachers in two Bergen County school districts and nearly…
New Haven, CT
News
Walloped By
Covid-
19, CT City Seeks $365K For Contact Tracing
A city walloped by COVID-19 is seeking $365,000 from the state to pay for virus detection and tracking. Meriden is requesting funding from the Connecticut Department of Public Health, Sen. Mary Daugherty Abrams said. The city is among those in the state with the highest infection rates, according to state data. More than 1,000 cases of COVID-19 infection have been confirmed in Meriden and there have been about 80 deaths, she said. Meriden would use the funding to hire a temporary contact tracing assistant who would track local contacts with infected people. It would also pay for more hour…
Brentwood, NY
News
Covid-
19: Long Island School Closed For In-Person Classes After Staffer Tests Positive
A Long Island school is closed for in-person learning after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19. South Woods Middle School in Syosset will be having its second straight day of virtual learning on Tuesday, Sept. 15. On Monday, Sept. 14, the Nassau County Department of Health started to conduct contact tracing. "Due to the circumstances surrounding this case, the investigation required the coordination of both the Nassau and Suffolk County Departments of Health, which added to the length of time required to complete the contact tracing investigation," the district said in a statement…
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Schools
Covid-
19: Numbers Continue To Climb In Morris County Area Following Labor Day Bash
The number of coronavirus cases linked to a Morris County Labor Day party has nearly doubled, township officials said. At least eight confirmed COVID-19 cases are linked to the Chatham Borough party, and as of Wednesday, another nine new cases in the Chathams were confirmed, Township Mayor Michael Kelly said. The new cases brought the six-day total to 21, he said. Chatham high schoolers were switched to remote learning after 12 of them had tested positive for the virus. It was unclear exactly how many of the new cases reported Wednesday were students. The high school went all-remote foll…
Massapequa, NY
Business
Covid-
19: Alert Issued For Callers Posing As Contact Tracers To Get Credit, Bank Account Info
Don’t fall for it. Fraudsters have been making the rounds, looking to take advantage of the COVID-19 crisis, posing as contact tracers seeking personal information from suspect victims amid the pandemic. Since the outbreak began six months ago, contact tracing has become a vital tool as health officials seek to identify positive COVID-19 cases, tracing back to the people they’ve been in contact with and isolating them to help curtail the spread of the virus. Recently, some state and federal officials issued a warning that some scammers have been posing as contact tracers, using that faux i…
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