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MERIDEN – Four of the city’s students, plus a Platt High School football player and a Washington College staff member, conducted COVID-19 tests over the weekend, school officials said Monday.
Meanwhile, in neighboring Wallingford, school and fitness officials announced that starting today, Sheehan High School will be closed to in-person learning, after instances of COVID were recently shown there and in two other schools. Sheehan will work on a full distance learning schedule due to a lack of teachers to teach face-to-face instruction. Face-to-face categories will resume on 16 November.
The announcements came amid what Meriden Mayor Kevin Scarpati called an “impressive” building in COVID-19 cases shown during the following week. Scarpati said the city had reported 127 recent cases since October 27. Of those cases, 79 were recently shown since Friday.
InPlatt, the school’s best football coach Jason Bruenn alerted parents that a student on the Westsiders football team tested positive on Saturday.
“At this time, all parents of any student and any staff member who was in close contact with this user were touched through the Department of Health,” Bruenn said in a statement on the Parent Square online site. “Our guards will continue their cleaning procedures and we will do all the protection protocols. We have diligently followed the rules established through meriden’s Department of Health and CT High School’s Independent Football League. »
Platt canceled the Westsiders’ on Monday and today. The practice is expected to resume on Wednesday.
Bruenn said: “We would like to continue to bring wonderful football fun to the players. We will be in JV/Freshmen matches with Maloney and New Britain for the next 2 weeks. Once the quarantine is complete, I would like to end this fall season with some other game on the weekend of November 20/21 ».
Platt High School also reported that the student tested positive on Monday, principal Dan Corsetti said in a note to parents.
“We work hard with Meriden’s fitness department. They will tell the parents of any student and staff member who is in close contact with this person,” Corsetti said.
The cohort allowed Meriden’s Department of Health to conduct tactile research, and Platt’s academics were diligent in dressing in masks and following social protocols, Corsetti says.
On Sunday, Jessica Showerda, director of Washington Middle School, announced two new instances of COVID-19 less than two hours apart. The contact search ended on Sunday afternoon.
On Monday, Showerda announced that an adult working on it had also tested positive.
“We have worked intensively with meriden’s Department of Health to temporarily identify and monitor Americans who have recently had close contact with the positive person for COVID-19 to prevent further spread,” Showerda said in a message to parents and staff. , the cohort allowed meriden’s Department of Health to conduct a contact search and, from 2:45 p. m. (Monday), all parties involved were informed. If he hasn’t been touched, then his son is transparent that he’s in school. “
Positive cases of coronavirus have also been reported at Lincoln Middle School, Thomas Hooker School, Roger Sherman School and Maloney High School. Public fitness officials said tactile studies showed that the virus does not spread in schools. In contrast, maximum instances are the result of meetings and outside. of door taps that are brought to school.
Scarpati also said the recent construction similar to a circle of family gatherings and other social events. With recent instances, Meriden, recently indexed through state fitness officials as on orange alert, will likely be reclassified as a red alert on Thursday. indicates that more than 15 new cases consistent with 100,000 are reported daily.
“It takes several days for a COVID check to be returned,” Scarpati said. “We may see the numbers pass. “
Authorities announced that the Westfield Rehabilitation Center, a former long-term care center on Westfield Road, will reopen as a COVID-19 patient center until November 9, housing less than two dozen patients at a time. It had closed in June. 30, after a relay in the records of the time.
In Wallingford, the school’s principal, Salvatore Menzo, said in the first of two messages sent to families on Monday that the district had been informed that others related to Lyman Hall High School, Sheehan and Moran Middle School had recently tested positive for COVID-19. With city fitness officials, district officials decided that the cases shown had been in close contact with at least one user while in a school and began searching for contacts.
“All people known as close contacts have already been notified through the construction management or nurse,” Menzo wrote.
It was in the message of the moment that Menzo explained Sheehan’s extended closure.
“I know that everyone is working very hard to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in an effort to keep schools open; however, the lack of staff to provide in-person instruction at this time requires the closure of Mark T High School. Sheehan, ” wrote Menzo. Management has worked tirelessly to keep students in school, but unfortunately we can no longer fill staff vacancies because of their desire for quarantine. “
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