Published February 05. 2021 7:00PM | Updated February 05. 2021 10:23PM
Groton Groton school officials said they learned Friday that members of Charles Barnum Elementary School and Fitch High School tested positive for COVID-19.
Superintendent Susan Austin said in a notification to parents, guardians and staff that there were no contacts in the schools. The people have been told to isolate at home according to public health guidelines.
School officials also learned Thursday evening that a member of the Mary Morrisson Elementary School community tested positive for COVID-19 and learned Thursday that a member of the Catherine Kolnaski Magnet School community tested positive, she wrote in two other notifications.
While the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes have been administering the COVID-19 vaccine to tribal members and now, on a limited basis, to some of their casino employees the Eastern Pequot Tribe has been struggling to get its elderly members vaccinated.
The Easterns’ chairwoman, Katherine Sebastian Dring, believes it’s another consequence of her tribe’s lack of federal recognition, a status the Mashantuckets and Mohegans have long enjoyed.
“Here we are, a state-recognized tribe with a reservation established in 1683, scientists have said we need to get vaccinated and we have not been acknowledged as an at-risk population,” Sebastian Dring said Friday. “As Native Americans, we are at risk. That’s a scientific fact.”
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As a breaking news reporter, I primarily cover crime and courts in southeastern Connecticut, but I also report on politics, health care and social justice issues. In addition to my beat, I am the cohost of the investigative true crime podcast Looking for the Todt Family. I am passionate about in-depth crime coverage and believe in the power of investigative journalism. I am a Connecticut native who returned to my home state to join the team at The Day.
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Security personnel watch a checkpoint into the cordoned off area where a World Health Organization team is staying at a hotel in central China s Hubei province on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Dominic Dwyer of a World Health Organization team walks in the cordoned hotel area in Wuhan in central China s Hubei province on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)