227 New COVID-19 Cases Reported Within Greenwich Public Schools

GREENWICH, CT — According to the latest update on Tuesday, the Greenwich Public Schools District has reported 227 new COVID-19 cases.

The district's case tracker currently shows 244 cases affecting 15 schools, with Greenwich High School on top at 112 cases.

The tracker shows 217 of the cases are among students, 16 are teachers, four are non-teaching staff members, five are service providers and one administrator.

Due to the large amount of cases, some details are missing from the tracker.

The latest update is lower than the previous two updates of 349 and 392 cases, which were reported coming off of a holiday recess.

"Our tracker posted another large number of positive cases today," said district spokesperson Jonathan Supranowitz. "GPS monitors the situation closely, and while cases continue to rise in our town, the vast majority of cases continue to come from the outside community. Since returning from our break, we have not experienced an outbreak within a classroom."

There are high case counts in schools across the state. Last Thursday, the Department of Public Health reported 7,612 new infections for students in Connecticut, up from 1,363 for the week prior.

DPH logged 2,338 positive COVID-19 cases among school staff, an increase from 477 recorded the previous week.

Updated District Guidelines

When classes resumed following the holiday recess last week, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Toni Jones announced several new guidelines that will be implemented in order to help curb the spread of COVID-19.

Updated guidelines for the district include:

• All school sites are re-evaluating the lunch mitigation to make sure that ample space is being instituted between students when masks are off.
• All school sites are limiting individuals who may enter the building to only essential volunteers or consultants (through January).
• Greenwich High School has opened a gym for expanded lunch space.
• GHS has added a fifth lunch rotation to reduce the number of students eating at one time.
• Aquatics classes at GHS have been temporarily suspended and pool safety and other curriculum have been substituted (to be evaluated again at the end of January). This change does not impact after-school athletics.

To view the GPS COVID-19 tracker, click here.