A Coquitlam elementary school has been flagged with a COVID-19 exposure for the third time, bringing the total number of ongoing school exposure investigations in the Tri-Cities to four.
Fraser Health is reporting an exposure at Roy Stibbs elementary, located at 600 Fairview Street, on Nov. 27; previous exposures at the school were reported to have occurred on Oct. 16 and Nov. 9.
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.”
