Henry Renelus, principal of the PS721Q high school in Elmhurst, Queens, sent a letter to members of the school's community notifying them that the building will remain closed for the next two weeks following positive COVID-19 tests.
A high school in Queens, New York, moved to all-remote learning on Wednesday prior to the start of the school year due positive cases of the novel coronavirus.
According to the letter, the school was shut down for an initial 24 hours after"two or more members of our school community tested positive"—but noted that after,"the NYC Test + Trace Corps and the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene have determined that at this time the main building site must remain closed for 14 days."Newsweek subscription offers >
Across New York City, schools faced delayed reopenings amid the pandemic and were set to begin in-person classes on Thursday. "We have a very unusual situation here where we have an uptick in a discrete set of ZIP codes and we are not seeing an interconnection to our public school system," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday."We will watch it very carefully, daily, hourly. And if at any point we determine we need to close an individual school or any number of schools in that area, we will.
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