Additional person tests positive for COVID-19 after being at a MC school
Additional person tests by Larry Chowning –
Middlesex County Public Schools (MCPS) announced on March 17 that in-person learning four days a week will officially start on Monday, April 12.
School will be in session Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday each week. Wednesday will remain a fully remote day for all students.
“We are building this new schedule on the assumption that students currently participating in the hybrid model will begin coming to school four days a week, while those that are fully virtual will remain fully virtual,” wrote Superintendent Peter Gretz in a March 17 email to parents.
Positive COVID-19 test
Keeping schools free of COVID-19 continues to be a challenge. MCPS has had an individual test positive for COVID-19 who was in the school on Friday, March 19, reported Dr. Gretz in a March 22 email to parents.
“Through contact tracing and in communication with the health department, we have identified three individuals as having been in close contact,” he wrote.
The person with the virus is in quarantine along with the three others who came in close contact with the person, he wrote.
The information released did not indicate whether the person was a teacher, support staff member, student or other individual.
“I am once again encouraged by the success of our mitigations in preventing the spread of COVID-19 and any widespread quarantines,” he wrote.
“No one has contracted COVID-19 from exposure in any of our schools because our students and staff are faithfully following the recommended guidelines,” said Dr. Gretz.
