Fraser Health students, teachers to be notified if COVID case was in their class after notification change
Posted December 5, 2020 12:59 pm.
Last Updated December 5, 2020 5:46 pm.
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SURREY (NEWS 1130) — Students and teachers at schools in the Fraser Health region that get exposed to COVID-19 will now know whether or not the infected person was in the same classroom as them.
In a tweet, Superintendent of Surrey School District, Jordan Tinney, says the significant change to the health authority’s exposure protocols are in effect as of Saturday.
Tinney says when there is exposure at a school, different types of letters will be sent out: one that will go to students and staff who shared a classroom with the positive case and another that will go to the rest of the school.
In cases where the positive case is not associated with a classroom — for example, if a Vice Principal gets sick — a third type of letter, which will go to everyone in the school, will be sent out.
The Fraser Health region has been hit hard during the second wave of the pandemic, accounting for more than half of the 711 new cases of COVID-19 announced in the province on Friday.
The Surrey School District has also seen two schools temporarily shutdown because of COVID-19 outbreaks. Cambridge Elementary reopened on Monday after being ordered to close for two weeks by Fraser Health in November. Newton Elementary is set to reopen on December 14 after being ordered to close last week.
