COVID cluster at Ridgefield s Farmingville school reaches 20
Macklin Reid
FacebookTwitterEmail
A COVID-19 cluster at Farmingville Elementary School has grown to 20 confirmed cases since Thanksgiving week.
School officials were counting nine cases early Friday, which grew to 14 over the weekend, and by Monday night was up to 20.
“Several of these cases are potentially due to exposures at school,” Superintendent of Schools Susie Da Silva said in one several communications that went out over the weekend.
“We are closing the FES building to staff and recommending that anybody who was in the FES building since Monday, December 7 closely monitor their symptoms and be tested for COVID-19,” Da Silva said.
Farmingville COVID cases prompt Ridgefield question session
Macklin Reid
FacebookTwitterEmail
Farmingville Elementary School in Ridgefield has an apparnet COVID-19 cluster that was up to 10 recent cases Friday.Macklin Reid / Hearst Connecticut Media
RIDGEFIELD The COVID-19 cluster at Farmingville Elementary School now up to 10 recent cases has prompted school officials to identify in-school exposure as a possible cause, recommend testing for people who have been in the Farmingville building, and plan a live question-and-answer session Monday at 1 p.m.
“There have been 10 cases of COVID-19 in the Farmingville Elementary School building in a short period of time,” Superintendent of Schools Susie Da Silva wrote in her weekly email to the school community Friday evening.
Aaron Crook Answers Questions Regarding FES COVID Cases Written by Aaron Crook, COVID-19 Health and Safety Compliance Liaison
Nine FES community members have tested positive for COVID-19 since Tuesday, December 1st. Five of which are staff members, and four are students. Two of the cases came from cohorts where there was a recent positive of COVID-19, which raises the possibility of in-school transmission within the FES building.
We have received questions as a result of these recent cases, two of which we want to take the opportunity to address in this communication:
Why is the FES community learning of positive cases days after the person has exposed others in the building?