{"id":21064,"date":"2021-04-26T23:22:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T02:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=21064"},"modified":"2021-04-26T23:22:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T02:22:06","slug":"covid19-bfec-halifax-west-and-sydney-mines-schools-report-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=21064","title":{"rendered":"COVID19: BFEC, Halifax West, and Sydney Mines schools report cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;95&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;121&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BEDFORD\/SYDNEY:<\/strong> Nova Scotia is reporting three new schools with COVID-19 cases connected to them today, April 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sydney Academy in Sydney will remain closed to students until Friday, April 30. A deep cleaning will take place and students will learn from home during the closure. Families will receive an update on Thursday, April 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bedford and Forsyth Education Centres (BFEC, Bedford campus) and Halifax West High are already moving to at-home learning, as they are located in Halifax Regional Municipality. These schools will also undergo a deep cleaning.<\/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>Public health will be in touch with any close contacts of these positive cases and advise of next steps, including testing. Everyone who is a close contact will be notified, tested and asked to self-isolate for 14 days.<br \/><br \/>Out of an abundance of caution, public health is recommending that all students and staff be tested. No self-isolation is required, unless people have been identified as a close contact by public health or have symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Information about all COVID-19 cases connected to public schools can be found at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ednet.ns.ca\/backtoschool\/case-info\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.ednet.ns.ca\/backtoschool\/case-info<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;95&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;92&#8243;]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;95&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;121&#8243;] BEDFORD\/SYDNEY: Nova Scotia is reporting three new schools with COVID-19 cases connected to them today, April 26. Sydney Academy in Sydney will remain closed to students until Friday, April 30. A deep cleaning will take place and students will learn from home during the closure. Families will receive an update on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[2063,975,2064,205],"class_list":["post-21064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bedford-and-forsyth-academy","tag-covid19","tag-halifax-west","tag-sydney-academy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21064","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=21064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}