More COVID-19 exposures have been reported at Burnaby schools - with seven in recent days.
The latest is 12th Avenue Elementary, which has had a COVID-19 exposure on Nov. 9, according to Fraser Health's latest update. Another notice was went to parents at Morley Elementary, which saw exposures on multiple days, including Nov. 3, 4 and 6.
Families at Gilpin Elementary have been informed of an exposure at the school on Nov. 2, according to a notice by Fraser Health.
This follows Glenwood Elementary families being informed by Fraser Health that someone who had tested positive for the virus had been at the school.
The exposure dates are Oct. 27-28.
Families at Moscrop Secondary also received a notification letter on Tuesday. The letter details that someone who tested positive for COVID-19 was at the school on Nov. 3 and 4. This is the second time in recent weeks that Moscrop has had a virus exposure as parents were informed of a case on Oct. 28 and 29.
This follows parents at Burnaby’s biggest high school receiving their fifth letter this fall notifying them of COVID-19 exposures at their kids’ school.
Burnaby North Secondary School families got notices from Fraser Health and principal Dave Rawnsley Monday afternoon saying someone who tested positive for the virus had been at the school last Monday and Tuesday (Nov. 2 and 3). Just days earlier, on Friday, the same families were told someone infected with COVID-19 had been at the school from Oct. 28 to 30. This is the fifth time since school started that Burnaby North parents have been notified of exposures at the school, according to letters posted on the school’s website. Since September, there have been 10 days that someone infected with COVID has been at the school.
Families at Burnaby’s Kitchener Elementary have also recently been told of COVID-19 exposures from Oct. 27-30.
But just because someone with the virus was there, doesn’t mean others will get it, according to Fraser Health chief medical health officer Dr. Elizabeth Brodkin.
Despite a “very significant number” of exposures at schools in the health region, “very few of them have gone on to result in transmission,” she said last week.
“The measures that are there are working,” she said.
- With files from Cornelia Naylor
