Another Delta elementary school has been added to Fraser Health’s current list of schools which have had COVID-19 exposure events.
According the health region, Cougar Canyon Elementary in North Delta had an exposure event Nov. 13.
An exposure is defined as a single person with lab-confirmed COVID-19 infection who attended school during their infectious period.
The health region explains that a notification does not mean your child has been exposed to COVID-19.
If you do not receive a phone call or letter from Public Health, your child should continue to attend school.
Other Delta schools on the FHA’s list, as of Friday, include Brooke, Chalmers, Hellings and McCloskey elementary schools, as well as Burnsview, Delview, North Delta and Seaquam secondary schools.
The FHA isn’t noting which schools on the current list also had previous exposure events or which Delta schools had exposures or clusters in the past but are no longer on the current list.
As the number of B.C. schools with exposures continues to increase, the province is considering extending the upcoming winter school break.
Meanwhile, a group of Langley-area parents is organizing a “sick out” on Tuesday, Dec. 1, leaving their kids and home, and hoping parents across the province will do the same, to protest class sizes and the lack of a mandatory mask policy.
B.C. Teachers' Federation president Teri Mooring this week appealed to parents directly to "support a culture of mask wearing" in schools.
