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Second COVID-19 exposure reported at North Van's Handsworth Secondary

A second COVID-19 exposure has been reported at Handsworth Secondary in North Vancouver. A letter went out to parents Thursday, informing them a case of COVID-19 has been reported in a Grade 11 block 2 pre-calculus cohort at the school.
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A second COVID-19 exposure has been reported at Handsworth Secondary in North Vancouver.

A letter went out to parents Thursday, informing them a case of COVID-19 has been reported in a Grade 11 block 2 pre-calculus cohort at the school. The potential exposure to the person who tested positive happened Oct. 20.

A week earlier, a different cohort of students at Handsworth was told to self-isolate after being exposed to a person with COVID-19 Oct. 13 and 14.

Parents with children in the affected class said the exposure happened in a Grade 9 PE class.

There have been several recent exposures in North Vancouver schools.

Both secondary and elementary schools have been affected.

They have included students in grade 9 and 12 cohorts at St. Thomas Aquinas private secondary school between Oct. 7 and 15 and a group of students at Seycove Secondary between Sept. 30 and Oct. 5.

At the elementary school level, students in one Grade 5/6 class at Blueridge Elementary was set to end their self-isolation Oct. 23 after being exposed to a case of COVID-19 Oct. 5 to 9.

A class at Westview Elementary was also told to self-isolate after exposure to a positive case Oct. 13 and 14.

In West Vancouver, which clocked far more incidents of COVID-19 exposures in schools during September, families of a grade 4/5 class at Ecole Pauline Johnson were given notice of a possible COVID-19 exposure there on Oct. 14 and 15.

On Thursday, Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s medical health officer, said there have been 232 school exposures in B.C. out of approximately 2,000 schools in the province, including six “clusters” where more than one person has been identified as having been exposed within the school.