Home /Grade 5/6 class required to quarantine after confirmed case of COVID-19 at ASES COVID-193 April 2021 By Sue Tiffin Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Archie Stouffer Elementary School students in a Grade 5/6 class have been identified as close contacts of a person who has tested positive for COVID-19. An April 2 e-mail to families in the Grade 5/6 class from the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge district health unit notes that students attending that class on March 30, March 31 or April 1 have been “identified as a close contact of an individual who is positive for COVID-19.” The letter serves as official notice of mandatory quarantine, noted as a legal requirement to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and testing recommendation for those children.