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Number of schools on state’s COVID outbreak list up this week

The March 25 list has four schools, while the March 18 list had three schools

By Aimee Barrows
Fifth-grade teacher Heather Engelhart helps fifth-grader Jose Tellez with a math problem on her classroom's Smart Board at Harrison Street Elementary School in Geneva. The board was donated to the school.

Shaw Media file photo (Sandy Bressner)

The Illinois Department of Public Health’s March 25 COVID-19 school outbreak list has four Kane County schools, down from three schools on the March 18 list.

New on the March 25 list from last week are Bell Graham Elementary School in St. Charles, with fewer than five cases among staff and students with the classroom as the source of exposure, and Hampshire High School, with fewer than five cases among students with the classroom as the source of exposure.

Remaining on the March 25 list from last week are Anderson Elementary School in St. Charles with five cases among students with the classroom as the source of exposure, and St. Catherine of Siena in West Dundee with fewer than five cases among staff and students with the classroom as the source of exposure.

IDPH updates the school outbreak list every Friday.

IDPH considers a school outbreak as “multiple cases comprising at least 10% of students, teachers, or staff within a core group or at least three cases within a specified core group. A core group means only those individuals who were together during an exposure period.”

According to the IDPH, the school outbreak data “includes entries elicited from cases opened within the previous 30 days from date of update.”

There were 86 new youth cases reported in Kane County between March 13-19, the latest data available. That’s up from 59 new youth cases reported in Kane County between March 6-12.





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