A school at the time in Edmonton has been known as a site where COVID-19 allegedly spread on Monday, Alberta’s medical director of health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw.
Edmonton Vimy Ridge Academy and Peace River Springfield Elementary School joined Edmonton Waverley School as sites where COVID-19 transmission would have occurred.
“As I pointed out on Friday, this is unforeseen and is a source of alarm. As we have noticed transmission in other contexts, we will see some cases where this happens in the classroom,” Hinshaw said at a press conference.
“We are working with Alberta schools and gyms to keep those numbers as small as you can imagine and avoid widespread dissemination in a school. Anyone who is potentially exposed has been or will be contacted and will be asked to isolate themselves. “
Nineteen in Alberta have experienced outbreaks, adding 3 more at Edmonton since Friday: Vimy Ridge Academy (six cases), Highland’s School (four cases), Holy Trinity School (two cases). There are also outbreaks at Center High and McNally School and Ross Sheppard College.
Alberta Health has reported that two cases in a school are an outbreak.
The province has 81 schools with active outbreak alerts, meaning that one or more people have attended school while they were contagious. A total of 126 instances are connected to those schools.
Vimy Ridge Academy, as well as San Wilfrid of Calgary, were placed on the surveillance list of schools in the province because they exceeded the five-case threshold, and instances may have simply been referred to the school.
“The only thing that is reflected is the number of cases, the ongoing risk,” Hinshaw said.
“While I know that schools are of paramount importance to all of us, it is vital not to forget that only 3% of all schools in the province have been exposed to COVID-19 to date.
Twenty-four people in Edmonton have noticed at least one case shown of COVID-19.
Until Saturday, a case was shown at Harry Ainlay School, Northmount School, Victoria School, York School, Kirkness School, Mayfield School, Aldergrove School, McLeod School, Dr. Donald Massey School and Beacon Heights School.
Two academics from Delwood School and seven from the Alberta School for the Deaf are remote after contacting COVID-19 while traveling on a yellow bus.
Twenty Catholic schools in Edmonton have shown at least one case of COVID-19, resulting in the self-disalrillation of approximately 340 other people since early September.
A momentary case of COVID-19 was shown Sunday in Austin O’Brien, sending seven other people to self-isolation, as well as a case shown last Friday that led to the isolation of 46 other people.
Archbishop O’Leary became aware of two cases on 9 and 10 September, but Nagy said AHS was not an epidemic.
While fitness officials said the threshold for an outbreak two cases, Edmonton Catholic Schools spokeswoman Lori Nagy said neither is considered an epidemic.
He said if there had been an epidemic, they would have won AHS letters to house the families.
“It’s not black and white, it’s essentially the case, if there’s been contact, those instances are very different and they’re in the same school,” he said. “I find it very definitive, but AHS has not declared those other epidemics to us. “
In St. Joseph, a momentary case of COVID-19 was shown on Friday and an individual ousting himself as a result. Last week, one user taught himself because of another case.
Nagy said the district had not won an AHS reaction as to whether the school complied with the definition of an epidemic, which requires two others to attend school while infectious.
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Alberta reported 119 new instances of COVID-19 on Friday, 102 on Saturday and 137 on Sunday, and another user died. There are 1,459 active instances in Alberta, 747 in the Edmonton domain, and 462 in the Calgary domain, and a further 256 people have died.
There were 145,415 cases of COVID-19 in Canada and 9,228 people died. More than 30 million cases have been shown internationally and 959,116 people have died, according to the World Health Organization.
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Editor’s Note: This story in the past incorrectly indicated the number of cases at Ross Sheppard School.
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