The Near North District School Board has just confirmed a second case of COVID-19 has been identified from Chippewa Secondary School in North Bay.
*"There is a second confirmed case at Chippewa Secondary School," the Near North Board memo from early Monday morning reads.
"At this time, the Health Unit is not declaring an outbreak as the cases appear unrelated. For an active list of cases in NNDSB schools, please visit the resources page."
The Near North District School Board has sent out a memo to parents and guardians of Chippewa secondary school students Sunday afternoon informing them of a positive COVID-19 case in the high school.
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"The Near North District School Board has been informed that a member of the school community at Chippewa Secondary School has tested positive for COVID-19," the Board stated in an email Sunday afternoon.
The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit is currently conducting an investigation.
"The NNDSB is working closely with the Health Unit to provide information about staff and students for contact tracing (e.g. attendance records, class lists, contact information for parents, etc…)," the memo continued.
The Board adds that all students and staff who are not directly contacted by the health unit have been determined to have had a low-risk exposure to the case of COVID-19.
"A low-risk exposure includes transient interactions such as walking by a person with COVID-19, or briefly being in the same room with a person who has COVID-19," noted the memo.
