After Sacramento Charter School Tests All Staff, Students No New Cases Found

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — No caller affirmative COVID-19 cases were discovered Friday aft a Sacramento charter schoolhouse decided to trial each unit and students erstwhile astir 2 twelve cases were discovered connected campus.

According to the Sacramento Unified School District, the schoolhouse is New Joseph Bonnheim, which is located adjacent the Tahoe Park country and began in-person acquisition connected Aug. 9.

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The bid for mandated investigating to forestall further dispersed came from Sacramento County Public Health Thursday aft 23 affirmative cases were discovered, the territory said. County wellness officials said it is apt transmission of the microorganism happened off-campus.

In a property merchandise Saturday, the territory said nary caller cases were identified arsenic portion of the accelerated effect squad deployment connected Friday. Separately from the required testing, the territory did place 1 further lawsuit arsenic a effect of a pending trial from the erstwhile day, brining the full lawsuit number to 24.

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“The schoolhouse has a full of 270 students and 23 staff, truthful this equates to 7.8% positives for the schoolhouse population. Given that this is simply a comparatively small, tight-knit community, and that the portion arsenic a full has precocious assemblage lawsuit counts and transmission, it appears much apt that transmission is occurring extracurricular of the schoolhouse campus,” the region said successful a missive to the territory earlier this week.

The territory said it is prioritizing investigating with an assertive approach: It is providing investigating astatine each of its 75 schoolhouse sites and the Serna Center each weekday successful an effort to place and mitigate the dispersed of COVID-19 transmission connected its campuses.

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The territory is required by the region to proceed to trial Bonnheim students and unit play implicit the adjacent 3 weeks.

CBS13 Staff