5 New School Cases Has 2 Classes Of Young Children In Quarantine

EAST HAVEN, CT — Five new positive cases of COVID-19 across the district shutters an elementary school class and a pre-kindergarten class. The latter is the first student case at Overbrook Early Learning Center since schools reopened in September.

The latest brings the total schools cases to 38 — 29 students and 9 staff — with 75 kids and staff in quarantine.

According to a letter from schools superintendent Erica Forti obtained by Patch, the district was notified that two from East Haven High School tested positive; one who had no close contact and another who did and those people have been told to quarantine. Then, a case at Tuttle School where an entire class has been quarantined. At Momauguin School there is one new cases but there are no "school-based close contacts in need of quarantining."

But it's the case at Overbrook that had some parents worried early Monday. The school to date has had no cases save one in October of a staff member. The confirmed positive case of a child at the school has a whole class in quarantine. The children are prekindergarten age.

As she has said in all letters to families announcing cases, the health department "confirmed that our schools can remain open at this time."

Read Forti's letter here:

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