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Superintendent Dan Polta says district officials decided Sunday to keep Tri-Valley School students in grades 8 through 12 at home for distance-learning after the district found out that a person who’s tested positive for COVID was in the building on Saturday.
Denali Borough School District officials reopened its three schools earlier this month, but decided Monday to close them again after hearing reports of two people who were in Tri-Valley School later found they'd tested positive for COVID-19.
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“And we said ‘OK, well, it’s the weekend, we’ve got time to do cleaning and sanitizing – again, even though we’d cleaned it after school already,” he said in an interview Tuesday.