After 2 COVID Positives, Middletown Elementary Back In Session

MIDDLETOWN, NJ — After a small COVID outbreak last week, Nut Swamp Elementary School in Middletown is back for its regular in-person session Monday morning.

As Patch reported, someone at Nut Swamp tested positive for COVID last week, and that has now expanded to a second person.

Multiple people who had close contact with those two individuals are currently quarantining, said Middletown Board of Education president Pamela Rogers.

Nut Swamp closed Friday so the district could clean and disinfect the building, but it has reopened Monday for all students in cohort A who are scheduled to be there. Middletown is using a hybrid half in-person, half-home model this fall.

"All those who were NOT in close contact for longer than 10 minutes with the individuals who tested positive while not wearing a mask have returned to the building today," said Rogers Monday morning.

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