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Publishing date: Jan 27, 2021 • January 27, 2021 • 5 minute read • Rainbow District School Board is advising parents and guardians that Public Health Sudbury and Districts advised the Sudbury Student Services Consortium that students from Sudbury Secondary School on four shared bus routes are required to self-isolate due to possible exposure to COVID-19 not related to the school or Rainbow District School Board. The board said there is no confirmed case of COVID-19 at Sudbury Secondary School or Rainbow District School Board at this time. Photo by John Lappa /Sudbury Star
13 cases reported: Public Health advising entire St. David school community to get COVID-19 tests
School board had already closed school and moved to online learning on Wednesday
Jan 22, 2021 2:07 PM By: Sudbury.com Staff
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St. David Catholic Elementary School. (File)
Public Health Sudbury & Districts is now advising the entire St. David Catholic Elementary School community to self-isolate and contact a COVID-19 assessment centre to make arrangements to get tested.
That includes all students, staff and visitors to the school.
To date, there have been 13 cases of COVID-19 associated with an outbreak at the school.
A press release put out by Public Health Sudbury said it was dismissing the entire school community, although Sudbury Catholic District School Board had already moved the school to online learning on Wednesday.
Six more COVID-19 cases reported at Hamilton schools
Five more people in the local public school board and one more student in the Catholic board have tested positive for COVID-19.
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Posted: Dec 13, 2020 1:19 PM ET | Last Updated: December 13, 2020
There are more people with COVID-19 in both the public and catholic school boards in Hamilton. (David Donnelly/CBC) comments
Five more people in the local public school board and one more student in the Catholic board have tested positive for COVID-19.
One staff member at C.B. Stirling Elementary School was confirmed as having the virus on Friday, after a student had tested positive earlier in the week. There is no link between the cases, according to the school, so no outbreak has been declared.