Ross Sheppard High School in Edmonton had a third case of COVID-19 on Monday, while two other public schools showed exclusive cases, officials said Tuesday.
Alberta’s health services informed Edmonton public schools on Monday that a third high school user had tested positive. The case is not similar to the previous two instances of COVID-19 in which the government considered the site to be an “epidemic” site. he did not contract COVID-19 at the school, a press release from Edmonton Public Schools said Tuesday.
As a result of the latest case, approximately 59 students, most commonly in grade 12, and two Ross Sheppard staff members will now have to isolate themselves at home for 14 days, monitor symptoms and go through exams. about 2,000 students.
In addition to the new high school case, AHS informed Edmonton Public Schools officials on Monday that a Toplands school member had tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, approximately 24 grade 7 students and 4 staff members will need to be isolated at home. for 14 days, monitor symptoms and perform tests.
A third case at the Ivor Dent school was also shown through fitness officers on Monday. This case affects approximately 22 fourth graders and five academics and two staff members.
Ross Sheppard High School is the first COVID-19 outbreak at a school in Edmonton. An outbreak is explained through Alberta Health as having two cases in a school and being contagious within 14 days. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s medical director of health, said Monday that the bar has stalled to claim that an epidemic involves the virus.
Edmonton Public Schools spokeswoman Megan Normandeau said there was a case at Westmount Junior High School, Parkview School, Center High and Vimy Ridge
In total, there are nine cases similar to public schools and about 441 more people are isolated.
Edmonton Catholic Schools spokeswoman Lori Nagy said Tuesday that there are a total of nine Catholic schools in Edmonton with at least one case and 62 other people who isolate themselves.
Father Michael Troy, Louis St. Laurent, Archbishop MacDonald, St. Edmund, Holy Trinity, St. Justino, St. Catherine and St. Joseph has a case similar to his school. Archbishop O’Leary has been associated with two cases.
Nagy said the instances in Archbishop O’Leary are not an epidemic because at least one of the instances has never been contagious in school.
“They are two very separate instances through AHS and do not meet the criteria of an epidemic,” Nagy said in an email on Monday.
On Monday, Alberta Deputy Minister of Education Andre Corbould said that about 98% of Albertans had no known cases.
Publicly announced instances on Tuesday are in addition to the 124 new instances of COVID-19 announced on the provincial government’s website.
Lately there are 1,491 assets in Alberta, 650 of which are in the Edmonton area.
Since the start of the pandemic, 15,957 cases have been detected in the province and 14,212 more people have been recovered. There were 254 COVID-19-related deaths in the province. Alberta hospitals have been treating 39 patients with COVID-19 lately, seven of whom are in intensive care.
There are 7,607 active cases across the country, according to the latest Health Canada figures. Since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 138,010 cases in Canada and another 9,179 people have died. Worldwide, there have been 29,155,581 cases shown and 926,544 deaths, the World Health Organization reports.
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