A school in Fort Collins has quarantined 37 students and 11 staff members after learning a student tested positive for COVID-19.
The University of Alabama has issued a prohibition on student gatherings, including off-campus parties and fraternity and sorority events, as the school tries to curb the spread of COVID-19. The university on Friday announced a 14-day moratorium on all in-person student events outside of classroom instruction. Social gatherings are prohibited on and off campus and the common areas of dormitories and fraternity and sorority houses are closed, according to the new guidelines.
Thirty-seven seventh-grade students in the same A-group cohort as the student who tested positive were asked to quarantine and switched to remote learning through Sept. 10, said Lisa Relou, a communications specialist for the Weld RE-4 School District. Seven teachers who had direct contact with the student are also working remotely through Sept. 4, she said, as are four paraprofessionals who had contact with the student.
was found Friday to have contracted COVID-19. The worker, a member of the aquatics department, was last at work on Thursday, according to a post by the Ocean Pines Association on Facebook. Three OPA workers have now tested positive since April. “We have notified employees believed to have had close contact with the affected employee directly, and asked them not to report to work for 14 days," the Association wrote in a statement.
facilities advanced in the state Legislature on Friday. Health committees in the Senate and Assembly each passed seven bills that are a response to the coronavirus's devastating toll in the state's long-term care facilities. More than 7,000 residents and staff in those facilities have died, accounting for half of the COVID-19 confirmed deaths in New Jersey. One key bill advanced in the Senate committee but not in the Assembly.
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