As COVID-19 cases continue to climb in Michigan, four local school buildings were added to this week’s School-Related Outbreak Report from the state. The schools were among seven in Ottawa County and 83 around the state added to the report.
Holland High School, Zeeland West High School and West Ottawa’s Harbor Lights and Macatawa Bay Middle Schools were all added to the report. The schools each had two cases related to their outbreaks except for Zeeland West, which had seven.
Last week, Holland and Zeeland both went remote for Wednesday and Thursday at the high school level along with middle school at ZPS in response to elevated cases and quarantines.
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Two more local schools were added to the state’s School-Related Outbreak Report Monday.
Black River Public School and Zeeland’s Cityside Middle School were added in the Feb. 15 update, making seven consecutive weeks a local school was added.
The report defines an outbreak as two or more cases from different households that may have shared an exposure in the school setting. As has been the case with previous outbreaks locally, BRPS and Cityside had the minimum of two related cases to qualify as an outbreak.
Black River’s dashboard shows three cases reported in the past 28 days. In Zeeland s most recent update Thursday, three active cases were reported at Cityside.