School Division details outbreak at Lethbridge high school

Sep 10, 2020 | 2:24 PM

LETHBRIDGE, AB– After learning about the two cases of COVID-19 at Chinook High School Wednesday, the Lethbridge School Division wanted to shed some light on the situation.

Now that there is two cases at the school, it is now considered an “outbreak.”

The two individuals that tested positive are students and attended seven different cohorts in the school, which amounts to possible contact with nearly 200 students that are all now in quarantine.

Those students are now under protocol with the high school and are beginning online schooling while being quarantined.

Lethbridge School Division Superintendant Cheryl Gilmore says that Alberta Health will have to determine the number of cases a school can have before it is shut down.

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MLA of Lethbridge-West, Shannon Phillips, says it’s impossible to be completely safe from the virus.

Phillips went on to state, “While it will be impossible to eliminate all risk in schools, the UCP government has not done enough to reduce that risk. They had six months to prepare, but failed to provide the appropriate funding or planning.”

Gilmore says AHS has made it clear that in order to be called an outbreak on the new outbreak mapping system, it had to be spread inside the schools.

More details may be available at a later time.

by Connor Gunn