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September 28, 2021 - 6:00 PM
Interior Health, along with the rest of the province, started posting COVID-19 school exposures today and already there are 15 on the Interior Health list.
Exposures are cases where someone has been in the school with COVID and may have exposed others.
These postings were done on health authority websites last school year but provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry dropped them for this school year, saying such postings were too alarming.
She announced a change in her approach during a news briefing today, Sept. 28, explaining that only notifying parents if there were clusters of cases or outbreaks wasn’t meeting their needs.
READ MORE: COVID-19 exposures in B.C. schools now being posted online: Dr. Bonnie Henry
The Interior Health website lists potential exposure events at two Kamloops schools, Juniper Ridge Elementary School on Sept. 17, 20, 21 and 22 and at Aberdeen Elementary School on Sept. 16, 17, 20, 21, 22 and 23.
There were also potential exposures at Kelowna Christian School Sept. 17, 20 and 21, Kelowna Heritage School Sept. 17, 20 and 21 and KLO Secondary School in Kelowna on Sept. 15, 16 and 17.
St. James School in Vernon had potential exposures on Sept. 21, 22, 23 and 24 and Oliver Elementary School had potential exposures on Sept. 14, 15, 16, 17 and 20.
Beaverdell Elementary School had potential exposures on Sept. 19, 20 and 21 and West Boundary Elementary School in Rock Creek on Sept. 14, 15, 16, and on Sept. 21 and 22.
Other potential exposures were listed for three schools in Cranbrook, two in Trail and one in Williams Lake.
The full list can be seen here.
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