East Brunswick Quarantines Field Hockey Team

EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ — East Brunswick School District’s 8th Grade field hockey team will quarantine after coming in “close contact” with a South Plainfield player who tested positive for COVID-19. The school district informed parents and guardian late on Wednesday night.

The two teams met on Monday for a game. Student-athletes will quarantine for 14 days.

“It is important to note that our student-athletes are being quarantined as “close contacts” and we are not aware of any positive COVID-19 cases among any of the EB team members at this time,” school Superintendent Victor Valeski said in a message to the school community.

Valeski informed that a significant number of teachers were also “close contacts” and have been asked to quarantine for 72 hours. Due to shortage of teachers, Churchill Junior High School had to move to virtual learning for Thursday.

“Because we will have a shortage of teachers who can be in the building for the face to face component of our hybrid learning model, CJHS will be closed for in-person learning activities but will operate from a virtual learning environment tomorrow, Thursday, October 8th, for all students and staff,” he said.

On Monday, over a 100 students and staff members from the school district had to quarantine after two students tested positive and two were presumed positive for COVID-19.

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