Two Port Coquitlam high school are the latest Tri-City school under investigation for a COVID-19 exposure, raising the current number of active school exposures in the district to 15.
Fraser Health listed coronavirus exposures at Terry Fox secondary on Dec. 8, 9, 10 and 11, and at the British Columbia Christian Academy — a private school in Port Coquitlam with students from pre-kindergarten to grade 12 — on Dec. 8, 9 and 10.
Other schools added this week to the health authority’s list of active exposures include Centennial, Banting, Miller Park and Panaroma elementary schools, as well as Eagle Mountain middle school in Anmore.
According to the health authority, a school “exposure” usually indicates a single person with a lab-confirmed COVID-19 infection attended school during their infectious period.
A school “cluster,” on the other hand, indicates possible school-based transmission with two or more lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 attending school while infectious, and an “outbreak” indicates “multiple individuals with lab-confirmed COVID-19 infection” and that “transmission is likely widespread.”
There have been no clusters or outbreaks in School District 43 since school resumed in September.
