Virus Closes School

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Virus Closes School

Fri, 10/16/2020 - 02:30
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RICHMOND – After several people tested positive for COVID-19 and scores more were possibly in contact with those people, Richmond School District leaders ordered a three-week shutdown at Richmond High School. “We had over 50% of our kids today either tested positive, or are quarantined or showing symptoms,” district Superintendent Greg Darling said last week. The four people who have the virus have been in contact with everyone else. The contact does not mean everyone else contracted the virus. But all must be checked for safety purposes. “We have a number that are getting tested and are showing signs and symptoms,” Darling said. Before the new school year began, the district board and administration approved options to deal with an outbreak. The shutdown is among those options. “We’re going to do three weeks of it,” Darling said, and reopen Nov. 2, if safe. The closed building will be cleaned. “We’ll do deep cleaning, get kids healthy, get them back to school face to face,”…

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