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  VICTORIA -- An elementary school in Nanaimo is reporting a COVID-19 exposure, becoming the fourth school in the city to issue such an alert since March 1. Island Health says exposures to the coronavirus were reported at Mountain View Elementary school on March 2 and 3. The school joins Bayview Elementary, Nanaimo District Secondary and Wellington Secondary, which all reported COVID-19 exposures in the first three days of the month. Mountain View Elementary previously reported a COVID-19 exposure on Feb. 16. There are currently 15 Vancouver Island schools on the health authority’s C...

VICTORIA -- Multiple schools on Vancouver Island are reporting new COVID-19 exposures this week. Three schools in Nanaimo – Bayview Elementary, Nanaimo and District Secondary and Wellington Secondary – all reported exposures to the virus on both March 1 and 2. Khowhemun Elementary in Duncan is also reporting exposures on those days, while Quamichan Middle School in Duncan had an exposure on March 2 only. Oceanside Elementary in Parksville is reporting a new exposure for March 1, after earlier reported exposures on Feb. 26 and 26. There are currently 18 Vancouver Island schools on th...

  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 exposu...

  VICTORIA -- A secondary school in Nanaimo has been added to the list of Vancouver Island schools reporting COVID-19 exposures, while two other schools in the area have expanded their previous exposure warnings. John Barsby Community School at 550 Seventh Street says students and staff may have been exposed to COVID-19 on Friday, Jan. 29. A previous exposure warning at Bayview Elementary has been expanded to Jan 25, 27, 28 and 29. Likewise, a previous exposure at Rock City Elementary has been expanded to Jan. 26 to 29. There are currently 12 Vancouver Island schools reporting potential...

The reports comes on the heels of an exposure at View Royal Elementary on Jan. 27. Recent exposures were also reported at Chemainus Secondary, Cowichan Secondary and Crofton Elementary, while Ecole Macaulay Elementary had a case reported last week. An exposure means that a single person with a lab-confirmed case of COVID-19 was at a particular location while infectious. Students should continue to attend school unless public-health officials advise differently. Island Health joins with school districts to notify any close contacts. There are currently 12 schools with a COVID-19 exposure ...