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UPDATE 11.40 p.m.
The Central Okanagan Public School Board announced another Kelowna school that was recently exposed to COVID-19.
A member of the Mount Boucherie Senior Secondary has tested positive for COVID-19. It is not known if the person is a student or an employee.
The exposure comes after Interior Health previously announced a case at Kelowna Secondary School.
While Interior Health first announced the case to KSS on Sunday morning, School District 23 confirmed the cases at the two Kelowna schools before sending a media release about them.
“They are self-isolating at home with the assistance of local health teams,” said a press release from SD23.
A member of Penticton’s Princess Margaret Secondary School also recently tested positive for the virus.
The new cases all come after the students return to class after the winter break last week.
ORIGINAL 9:55 am
Interior Health has confirmed that students in schools in Penticton and Kelowna have received COVID-19 and may have exposed the virus to others in the first week of class in 2021.
Interior Health announced that there was COVID-19 exposure at Kelowna Secondary School on Jan 4th, 5th and 7th, while Penticton’s Princess Margaret Secondary School exposed to the virus on Jan 4th, 5th and 6th was.
While local school districts have typically sent media releases on each exposure, these most recent exposures have not. Interior Health updates school COVID-19 exposures on their website.
Additionally, there was COVID-19 exposure at Golden Lady Gray Elementary on January 4th and 5th, while 100 Mile House’s Peter Skene Ogden Secondary School also had an exposure on January 4th and 5th.
The health authority is conducting a contact tracing and will reach out directly to anyone believed to have had close contact with the infected person.
On Wednesday, School District 23 announced an exposure at Rutland Senior Secondary School – the first case of the virus to be discovered in a local school after the winter break.
On Saturday, the parents of Hillview Elementary School and WL Seaton Secondary School in Vernon were also informed of the exposures at these schools last week.
