A bear sighting in central Nanaimo Friday morning sent two schools briefly into shelter-in-place protocol.Nanaimo District Secondary School, Fairview Community School and the Nanaimo-Ladysmith School. . .
VANCOUVER Island Health has added two more schools in Nanaimo to its online list of COVID-19 exposures, bringing the total number of schools with recent coronavirus cases in the city to six. The two most recent additions in Nanaimo are Nanaimo District Secondary School - which had exposures on Jan. 27 and 28, as well as Feb. 1 through 3 - and Brechin Elementary School, which had an exposure on Feb. 1. The other four schools in Nanaimo with recent exposures are John Barsby Community, Rock City Elementary, Qwam Qwum Stuwixwulh and Bayview Elementary. Dates for all of the recent exposures in the Island Health region can be found on the health authority s website.
The Greater Victoria School District said it has not received any notification from health authorities that the school’s operations would be affected. “If we were notified by [public] health of any risks or an exposure to school staff and students, we would take the appropriate steps as advised by public health,” the district said in a statement. Island Health also reported a COVID-19 exposure at Chemainus Secondary School. The exposure, which means a single person with COVID-19 was at the school while infected, happened on Monday. A notification does not necessarily mean that anyone else will be affected, and public-health personnel will determine who the close contacts are.