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Newark, NJ
Schools
Covid-
19: Three Students Test Positive At Regional Essex County High School
Three high school students at a regional Essex County school tested positive for COVID-19. The West Essex Regional School District has transitioned back to remote learning, NorthJersey.com reports citing an email to parents. The district includes students from Essex Fells, Fairfield, North Caldwell and Roseland. Remote learning will begin Monday, Oct. 12, and end Oct. 18, the email said. Friday's football game against Nutley was also cancelled, and all extracurricular activities are cancelled until Oct. 18. The cases were contracted outside of school and several families will have to qua…
Mount Pleasant, NY
News
Covid-
19: Two More Schools In Northern Westchester Go Remote After Students Test Positive
Two more schools in the Hudson Valley are closed for in-person learning after positive cases of COVID-19. The Lakeland Central School District announced on Wednesday evening, Oct. 7 that it was notified earlier in the day that two students were identified as COVID-19 positive, one at Walter Panas High School, and one at Lakeland Copper Beech Middle School. As a result, Walter Panas High School and Lakeland Copper Beech Middle School will be on fully remote instruction for Thursday, Oct. 8 and Friday, Oct. 9. Students and staff who were in contact with the infected students …
Highland Lakes-Vernon, NJ
Schools
Covid-
19: Positive Case Closes Sussex County Elementary School
A Sussex County elementary school will be closed for two weeks with students learning remotely after a COVID-19 test from an individual at the school came back positive. The Clifton E. Lawrence School was closed Monday and Tuesday after the individual tested positive on a rapid test, Sussex-Wantage Regional School District Superintendent Michael Gall said. The official results returned positive, and so students were switched to remote learning on Oct. 19 for Cohort A and Oct. 20 for Cohort B. The case is associated with someone from outside fo the school community, the superintendent said.…
Massapequa, NY
News
Covid-
19: Long Island HS Will Stay Closed Another Week After Cluster Linked To Party
A Long Island high school will stick to remote learning for at least another week following a COVID-19 outbreak after students attended a Sweet 16 party last month. Sachem Schools Superintendent Christopher Pellettieri announced on Tuesday, Oct. 6 that Sachem High School North will remain closed for the week after more than a dozen confirmed COVID-19 cases that have been linked to an event held on the weekend of Friday, Sept. 25. In total, hundreds of students and dozens of staff members have been placed into a temporary quarantine as the district and health officials continue contact traci…
Worcester, MA
Police & Fire
30 Firefighters Quarantined In One City
More than two dozen firefighters from the same department have been put in quarantine after three members tested positive for COVID-19. The positive tests started rolling in on Sunday, Oct. 4, then two more positive cases were confirmed among Worcester firefighters. The quarantine is effecting two stations and 30 firefighters who will quarantine due to contact with their colleagues. The quarantine should not impact services to the city, City Manager Edward Augustus Jr., told the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. The fire stations have been cleaned and the city plans to follow up with con…
Hackensack, NJ
News
Personal Physician: Trump Can Fulfill Duties While Quarantined Following Positive COVID Test
President Trump's personal physician said he could fulfill his duties as president "without disruption" while quarantined, following the announcement early Friday that he and First Lady Melania Trump both tested positive for COVID-19. “We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately,” the president tweeted shortly before 1 a.m., following a visit to a private fundraiser at his golf course in Somerset County. “We will get through this TOGETHER!” It takes up to six days for symptoms such as fever, a cough and breathing trouble to emerge from the respiratory virus that’s killed m…
Mount Pleasant, NY
News
Covid-
19: President Trump, First Lady Both Test Positive
Both President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19. The president announced the news in a tweet shortly before 1 a.m. EST Friday, Oct. 2, writing: 'Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately." Shortly after, just before 1:30 a.m., the first lady tweeted: "As too many Americans have done this year, @potus & I are quarantining at home after testing positive for COVID-19. We are feeling good & I have postponed all upcoming engagements. Please be sure you are staying…
Brookfield, CT
News
Covid-
19: High School In Fairfield County Closes Again After New Cases
The number of students at Fairfield Ludlowe High School testing positive for COVID-19 has jumped, forcing dozens into quarantine and the closure of the building. Fairfield Public Schools Superintendent Mike Cummings said that the high school will be closed on Wednesday, Sept. 30, and Thursday, Oct. 1 due to three more confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in students or staffers. Cummings said that more than 30 additional students have been instructed to enter quarantine, bringing the number of students and staff in isolation to more than 80. An additional two dozen others outside of the Fair…
Massapequa, NY
News
Covid-
19: One State Added To NY/NJ/CT Quarantine List
Travelers from one new state have been added to the COVID-19 joint quarantine list of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The new state added on Tuesday, Sept. 29 is Colorado. Two states -- Arizona and Virginia -- were removed the advisory. The quarantine applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a seven-day rolling average or a state with a 10 percent or higher positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average. Those who have traveled to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut from those areas, all of which have sig…
Brookfield, CT
News
Covid-
19: Number Of Positive Cases At High School In Fairfield County Increases To 14
More COVID-19 cases in Fairfield County have been linked to students attending mass gatherings in violation of the state’s COVID-19 mandates. At least 14 positive COVID-19 cases have been linked to Fairfield Ludlowe High School students who attended gatherings, the district announced this week. The number had been at 11 through the weekend, but Schools Superintendent Mike Cummings said that there were three new cases that were identified among students already in quarantine. The announcement comes on the heels of the district being forced to close the building for two days last week to sa…
Kingston, NY
Schools
Covid-
19: New Positive Case Reported In Hudson Valley School
Another student and teacher in the Hudson Valley have tested positive for COVID-19, causing concerns for an area school district. Valley Central Schools Superintendent John Xanthis said over the weekend that a student at the Alternative Learning Center tested positive for the virus. A teacher at Valley Central Middle School has also tested positive for COVID-19. Xanthis said that the district has been in touch with the Orange County Department of Health, which has begun identifying and contacting the parents of students that were in “close contact” with the student. Close contact is…
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
News
Lawsuit
: 65 Atlantic City Firefighters Exposed To
Covid-
19 Followed 'Ineffective' Approach
The Atlantic City firefighters union has filed a lawsuit saying the city took an "ineffective approach" to handling the COVID-19 pandemic after 65 firefighters were exposed to the virus. The city arranged rapid tests for firefighters directly exposed to six others who tested positive, and instructed those who tested negative to return to work, according to the suit filed in Atlantic County Superior Court. Filed by Local 198, the suit calls the approach to handling the virus "ineffective," and " jeopardized the health and safety of all firefighters, their families, and the general publi…
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