Two more New Westminster schools have been added to the COVID-19 exposure list.
New Westminster Secondary School saw an exposure on May 4, 5, 6 and 7, according to a letter to families May 13 and a post on the Fraser Health school exposures website May 14. Lord Tweedsmuir Elementary School recorded its second exposure in less than two weeks, with an exposure on May 3, 5 and 6. That follows on the heels of an earlier exposure at the school April 20 and 22.
So far, four district schools have seen exposures in May, with a previously reported exposure at Glenbrook Middle School May 3 and 4 and another at Lord Kelvin Elementary School May 4 and 5.
The new exposures come on the heels of recently released data showing that 33 students in New Westminster had COVID-19 in the nine-week period between Jan. 1 and March 7, with three "clusters" occurring in New West schools in that same time period. (A cluster refers to a case in which at least one in-school transmission occurred within a 14-day period.)
You can find more about that data in an in-depth look published by the Record yesterday (May 13).
Here's how school exposures have looked in New Westminster so far this year:
EXPOSURE DATES AT NEW WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS IN 2021
Glenbrook Middle School: Jan. 4; Feb. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 22; April 6, 7, 8, 23; May 3, 4
Queensborough Middle School: Jan. 11; Feb. 23, 24, 25, 26; April 19, 20
Herbert Spencer Elementary: Jan. 25; April 13, 14
Fraser River Middle: Jan. 27, 28, 29; March 2, 3, 4, 5
New Westminster Secondary: Jan. 28; Feb. 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 17, 18, 19, 23; March 8, 9, 11, 12, 29, 30, 31; April 1, 6, 9, 16; May 4, 5, 6, 7
Richard McBride Elementary: Feb. 10, 11, 12, 22, 23; March 1; April 6, 7, 8, 15, 16, 29, 30
Qayqayt Elementary: Feb. 22, 23; March 8, 9; April 14, 15, 16
F.W. Howay Elementary: Feb. 17, 18
Lord Kelvin Elementary: March 3, 4; April 16, 19, 20, 21; May 4, 5
Queen Elizabeth Elementary: March 8, 9
Lord Tweedsmuir Elementary: April 20, 22; May 3, 5, 6
Hume Park Home Learners Program: Jan. 5
POWER Alternate Secondary: April 12
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