LAUSD reports its first COVID-19 outbreak since students returned to campus

The Los Angeles Unified School District reported its archetypal COVID-19 outbreak astatine a schoolhouse tract connected Wednesday, Aug. 25 — a week-and-a-half aft the start of the schoolhouse year.

Grant Elementary School successful East Hollywood reported 11 progressive coronavirus cases among unit and students, with 7 of those believed to person been dispersed astatine school, according to the astir existent accusation connected the district’s COVID-19 investigating dashboard. It was past updated astatine 10 p.m. Tuesday.

County nationalist wellness officials are treating the concern astatine Grant arsenic an outbreak, and each students successful the people were instructed to isolate oregon quarantine, a spokesperson for the schoolhouse territory said. Officials person not identified the affected classroom.

“Los Angeles Unified contiguous confirmed that the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health identified a COVID-19 outbreak astatine Grant Elementary School,” the territory said successful a statement. “The cases are concentrated successful a azygous schoolroom and Los Angeles Unified is afloat cooperating with the Department of Public Health. The District has alerted each those perchance impacted and the quarantined people has been provided with instructional materials to proceed their studies.”

School committee subordinate Jackie Goldberg, whose territory includes Grant Elementary, said fixed the resurgence of coronavirus cases passim the region and the information that children nether 12 aren’t yet eligible to beryllium vaccinated, immoderate transmission was expected. However, she believes it is inactive harmless for families to nonstop their children to the field due to the fact that of the aggregate information measures successful place, including play COVID-19 testing, mandatory masking indoors and outdoors, improved ventilation systems and different precautions.

“It was caught quickly,” she said astir the outbreak. “That’s wherefore investigating each week is truthful important. . … The world is we caught it quickly, we worked with the nationalist wellness department, we instantly reached retired to the families of the children involved. … Those are the things that archer (families) we are watching carefully.”

Grant is the lone schoolhouse successful the territory since students returned to campuses connected Aug. 16 that has reported immoderate school-based transmissions.