New COVID-19 cases have been confirmed within a Fairfield County school district as the pandemic continues raging throughout Connecticut.Officials in the Ridgefield Public School District announced that four new cases of COVID-19 had bee.
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School Status
As communicated on Wednesday, all schools will continue in the hybrid model until at least the week of January 18. We will communicate with families again on Wednesday, January 13.
Health and Safety
Governor Lamont announced yesterday that the new UK variant of coronavirus has been detected in Connecticut. At this time we have not received any adjusted guidance from the Department of Public Health. The DPH is closely monitoring the situation.
Several of our RPS school nurses have now received the COVID-19 vaccine as part of phase 1-a, and others have appointments pending. Phase 1-b of the vaccine rollout in Connecticut, which includes school employees, is expected to begin by the end of January. There are 800,000 people in CT in phase 1-b, and it is expected to take 2-3 months to complete.
COVID cluster at Ridgefield s Farmingville school reaches 20
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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
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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.
COVID cluster at Ridgefield school prompts call for testing
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Ridgefield s Farmingville Elementary School has had eight recent COVID-19 cases, prompting a recommendation people who ve been there be tested.Macklin Reid / Hearst Connectictu Media
A cluster of COVID-19 cases among Farmingville Elementary School’s students and staff has prompted Ridgefield school officials to recommend testing for people who have been in the school recently.
“Given the number of cases that have appeared in Farmingville in the last several days, we are recommending that anybody who has been in the Farmingville building since December 7th be tested for COVID-19,” said a message to Ridgefield school families Friday, Dec. 18.