Fraser Well being has ordered an elementary college in Surrey, B.C., to shut in response to an outbreak of COVID-19.
To this point, 16 folks have examined constructive at Newton Elementary College, in accordance with a information launch from the well being authority.
The Surrey College District has been instructed to shut the college for 2 weeks to interrupt the chains of transmission. It should reopen Dec. 14, in accordance with a letter to oldsters from college district superintendent Jordan Tinney.
“We acknowledge that this has been a nerve-racking time as you look forward to additional data and admire the truth that this closure will trigger disruption and inconvenience for a lot of. The security of our college group is of utmost significance and we admire your persistence and understanding,” Tinney wrote.
His electronic mail explains {that a} college outbreak is said when a major variety of infections are prone to have occurred at a college — past one classroom or cohort.
To this point this college 12 months, not less than two different B.C. colleges have seen outbreaks — Cambridge elementary in Surrey and École de l’Anse-au-sable in Kelowna.
The Fraser Well being area has been the epicentre of B.C.’s second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the 911 new instances confirmed throughout the province on Friday, 649 or 71 per cent have been in Fraser Well being.
