{"id":18155,"date":"2020-11-19T23:45:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T03:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=18155"},"modified":"2020-11-19T23:45:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T03:45:08","slug":"covid19-second-case-from-auburn-high-reported-some-schools-closed-nov-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=18155","title":{"rendered":"COVID19: Second case from Auburn High reported; some schools closed Nov. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;95&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;94&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HRM:<\/strong> Nova Scotia is reporting one additional case of COVID-19 at Auburn Drive High School in Cole Harbour. The new case is a close contact of an earlier reported case at the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Auburn Drive High and its family of schools will close for the day on Friday, Nov. 20, which includes:<br \/>&#8212; Astral Drive Elementary<br \/>&#8212; Astral Drive Junior High<br \/>&#8212; Bell Park Academic Centre<br \/>&#8212; Caldwell Road Elementary<br \/>&#8212; Colby Village Elementary<br \/>&#8212; Graham Creighton Junior High<br \/>&#8212; Humber Park Elementary<br \/>&#8212; Joseph Giles Elementary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schools will be closed to community bookings from now until Sunday, Nov. 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday is an assessment and evaluation day for students from pre-primary to grade 9. Staff will work from home except for caretaking and custodial staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public health will be in touch with close contacts as part of its ongoing investigation and advise of next steps. Everyone in a class which a confirmed case attended is being tested and must self-isolate for 14 days. Students will be supported to learn at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a member of the school community tests positive for COVID-19, public health works with the school to let families know about the positive case and what happens next. Those decisions, including whether to keep a school open, close a classroom or close the entire school, are made based on the level of risk to other members of the school community and the operational capacity to support in-class learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;93&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;95&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;94&#8243;] HRM: Nova Scotia is reporting one additional case of COVID-19 at Auburn Drive High School in Cole Harbour. The new case is a close contact of an earlier reported case at the school. Auburn Drive High and its family of schools will close for the day on Friday, Nov. 20, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[1626,1440,975],"class_list":["post-18155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-auburn-high","tag-cole-harbour","tag-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}