New Era registers first COVID case of school year
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This article was published 23/09/2021 (1635 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
École New Era School is the latest K-12 institution in Westman to deal with a COVID-19 exposure, with Brandon School Division officials confirming at least one new case in a Grade 5/6 classroom.
According to a Wednesday evening notice from BSD, this individual may have been infectious throughout Sept. 17-20, although the division maintains that “the infection was not believed to be acquired at school.”
This marks the fifth BSD school that has publicly registered a COVID case since the 2021-22 academic year officially began on Sept. 7.
Since then, the division revealed that individuals from Vincent Massey High School (Grade 12 class), Riverheights School (Grade 1 class), Betty Gibson School (Grade 1/2 classroom) and École O’Kelly School (three separate grades) have contracted the virus.
The province’s COVID tracker map indicates that Brandon’s Christian Heritage School, which is not managed by BSD, is also contending with at least one case at the moment.
Elsewhere in the region, the Mountain View School Division is currently enduring at least five COVID cases between Roblin Elementary School, Goose Lake High School and Henderson Elementary School.
The province has registered 56 total COVID cases in Manitoba K-12 schools since the beginning of fall semester, according to their online dashboard as of Thursday morning.
Of these 56 cases, 47 cases are students and the remaining nine are school staff.
This total marks a sharp jump from the 19 K-12 COVID cases that the province registered a week ago.
While school COVID outbreaks were originally relegated to the Winnipeg, Brandon and Steinbach areas at the beginning of the fall semester, cases have since popped up in Portage La Prairie, Flin Flon and Thompson as well.
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