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A Fairfield County school district is contending with a new surge of COVID-19 cases that have cropped up across multiple school buildings, officials announced.
Westport Schools Superintendent Thomas Scarice issued an alert to the community cautioning that there have been more than a dozen newly confirmed COVID-19 cases within schools districtwide.
According to Scarice, new cases were confirmed in students and staffers at:
Staples High School: 9 cases;
Bedford Middle School: 2 cases;
Coleytown Elementary School: 1 case;
Greens Farms Elementary School: 1 case;
Kings Highway Elementary School: 1 case;
Saugatuck Elementary School: 1 case.
The Connecticut Department of Public Health has reported a total of 1,741 COVID-19 cases in Westport since the pandemic began last year, resulting in 31 virus-related deaths.
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9 NEW HAVEN, Conn. As the sun peeks through the clouds on an early spring day, Mary Wade Home resident Marilyn Degnan reflects on the previous year and the shot of hope she felt hearing that the Connecticut National Guard was headed her way with the COVID-19 vaccine.
“All I have are my two sons and five granddaughters,” said Degnan. “Just to be able to see them is going to mean the world to me.”
The Connecticut National Guard helped provide COVID-19 vaccines to nursing home residents like Degnan in support of a Connecticut Department of Public Health effort titled “Operation Matchmaker.”
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