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The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit has declared an outbreak at St. Peter Catholic Elementary School in Tecumseh after confirming an additional three positive cases of COVID-19 in the same cohort that was dismissed April 4.
“The affected cohort and the school community has been informed that a variant of concern has been identified in this cohort,” said Windsor Essex Catholic District School Board spokesperson Stephen Fields.
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“However at this time, the outbreak is limited to the cohort that was dismissed and all other students and staff at St. Peter are deemed low-risk and may continue attending school as usual.”