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Tarrytown-SleepyHollow, NY
Schools
Covid-
19: New Case Reported At School In Westchester
A staff member at a Westchester school has become the latest to test positive for COVID-19. New Rochelle Superintendent Alex Marrero issued a notice to the community that a staff member at Daniel Webster Magnet School has tested positive for COVID-19. Marrero said the staff member was last in the building on Wednesday, Dec. 16, the same day he became symptomatic. Anyone who may have been in contact with the staffer has been notified and ordered to quarantine. According to Marrero, the staff member had no other contact with any other school employees for more than 10 minutes in the past we…
Massapequa, NY
News
Covid-
19: CDC Updates Guidelines On Caring For Person Who's Sick With Virus
Federal health officials have laid out guidelines for how to best care for someone who contracts COVID-19 without falling ill yourself. With new COVID-19 cases on the rise across the country, the CDC laid out new guidance to help those who have to provide support for someone who falls sick. The CDC said that caretakers should follow doctor’s orders, and see if any over-the-counter medicines help make the person feel slightly better. The sick person should be drinking lots of fluid, and contact should be limited between the two. Officials said that a doctor’s phone number should be readily…
Worcester, MA
News
Covid-
19: More Than 380,000 MA Residents Have Isolated/Quarantined Since May
More than 380,000 people in Massachusetts have gone into - or are still in - quarantine or isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s more than 5 percent of all Massachusetts residents. Since May, concern about spreading COVID-19 has caused 387,769 individual quarantines or isolations among Massachusetts residents, according to the state’s Dec. 9 COVID-19 daily dashboard, the most recent information available. Quarantine is for people who may have been exposed to COVID-19. Isolation is for individuals who are sure they have COVID-19. Either way, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control u…
Massapequa, NY
Schools
Covid-
19: Student Tests Positive, Leading To Quarantines At Long Island School District
More than two dozen students and staff members at a Long Island school were forced to quarantine after learning of a positive COVID-19 test. The Bridgehampton School District was forced to quarantine one of its two sixth-grade classes for two weeks, district officials announced this week, which includes more than a dozen of the school’s 18 sixth graders. The student who tested positive was last in the school building on Wednesday, Dec. 2. In addition to the students, 10 staff members have also been quarantined. While under quarantine, those students will be learning remotely through at lea…
Mount Pleasant, NY
Schools
Covid-
19: School District In Area Goes Remote Until 2021
A school district in the area will be switching over to its distance learning model following a recent spike in COVID-19 cases among students and staff members. Carmel Schools Superintendent Eric Stark announced the shift to remote learning will start on Monday, Dec. 14 for all schools. Carmel High School already shifted to distance learning starting on Monday, Dec. 7. All students will return to in-person learning as of Friday, Jan. 8. “There were a number of factors that led to the decision to close for the extended time period,” Stark wrote in a message to parents. “The primary reason i…
Mount Pleasant, NY
News
Covid-
19: New Cases Lead To Closure, Quarantines At School District In Westchester
The confirmation of new positive COVID-19 cases at a school district in Westchester has resulted in the closure of in-person learning at one school and quarantines for some students and staffers at another. Irvington Union Free School District Superintendent Kristopher Harrison made the announcement late Sunday afternoon, Dec. 6 in an email to the community. The two new cases were confirmed at Irvington High School and Dows Lane Elementary School. Due to the impact on staffing and school operations, Dows Lane Elementary School will be closed for in-person learning for two weeks. …
Brentwood, NY
News
Covid-
19: Public Safety Employee Tests Positive At Town Hall In Suffolk County
A Public Safety employee working at the visitor security check-in guard booth in the main lobby at Huntington Town Hall on Friday received confirmation of a positive COVID-19 test. Town officials issued an alert cautioning that at approximately 10 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 4, the employee received the test results from a test that was administered on Tuesday, Dec. 1 as a precaution due to the employee exhibiting sinus infection symptoms. This was the first and only time the employee has worked the check-in desk, and only from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Friday, town officials noted. Previous…
Lower Merion-Narberth, PA
Schools
NEW
Rules
: Pennsylvania Schools Must Close Once Certain Number Of
Covid-
19 Cases Are Reported
Pennsylvania's Department of Education last month released a new set of cleaning and closing procedures in the event of new COVID-19 cases and outbreaks in the state's public Kindergarten through 12th grade schools. The Nov. 23 guidelines say schools with a certain number of cases must go all-remote for a certain period of time, once a specific number of cases are reported. And it could happen on very short notice. The guidelines provide advice on contact tracing, cleaning, closures and quarantining. The level of community transmission is considered (low, moderate and substantial) as is th…
Brookfield, CT
Schools
Covid-
19: School Districts In Fairfield County Report 13 New Cases
Several new positive COVID-19 cases were confirmed in multiple Fairfield County schools, officials announced. In Westport, four new cases were reported at four different schools: Bedford Middle School, Long Lots Elementary, Staples High School, and Stepping Stone Preschool, Superintendent Thomas Scarice wrote in a notice to parents. Related story - COVID-19: Two New Cases Confirmed In Westport School District “In our efforts to remain transparent with reports of positive Covid-19 cases associated with our schools, we will continue to provide these updates as information is confirmed,” Scar…
Stony Point, NY
News
Covid-
19: New Alert Issued For Exposure At Restaurant In Area
Health authorities have issued a new alert for COVID-19 exposure at a restaurant in the area. Sullivan County Public Health Services has confirmed that an employee who works at Cellaio, a restaurant in the Town of Thompson, tested positive for COVID-19. There is currently no indication that the employee contracted the virus at the restaurant or impacted anyone else, the department said. Public Health Services has determined that this individual was working at Cellaio, located at 888 Resorts World Drive in Monticello, during the following dates and times: • Thursday, Nov. 26 between…
Massapequa, NY
News
Covid-
19: CDC Issues New Advisory On When 7-, 10-Day Quarantines Work
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued new guidance regarding quarantines for someone potentially exposed to COVID-19. Initially, the CDC recommended that anyone who may have been exposed to the virus enter a self-quarantine of at least 14 days to allow potential symptoms to subside. On Wednesday, Dec. 2, the CDC provided new “acceptable alternatives,” that include a 10-day quarantine for those who remain asymptomatic and seven days if no symptoms surface and a negative test is collected within two days of the final day of quarantine. The CDC defines a close contact as…
Hackensack, NJ
News
Covid-
19: Six Hackensack Firefighters Test Positive, 21 More Also Quarantined Out Of Caution
Six Hackensack firefighters who tested positive for COVID-19 were isolating and 21 others who were exposed to them were quarantining out of an “abundance of caution,” authorities said. Of the six who tested positive in the past three days, “one had moderate symptoms, two had minor symptoms and the other three were asymptomatic,” Hackensack Fire Chief Thomas J. Freeman told Daily Voice on Wednesday. Although having a quarter of the department’s firefighting force sidelined presents scheduling challenges, “we still have sufficient numbers to satisfy our minimum manning of 18 firefighter…
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