Coronavirus California Update: Elk Grove Student Tests Positive, School District Cancels Classes

The Elk Grove School District officials in California confirmed Monday that an elementary student tested positive for novel coronavirus.

According to local reports, the victim, a student of the Maeola R. Beitzel Elementary School, was one among the four children from a family who underwent the tests for the virus. The children were screened after two other family members tested positive last week. The family was put in quarantine by the Sacramento County health officials.

In a statement Monday, the school district said, “County Public Health Services officials notified the District that it should assume that the four children in the home who are also enrolled at two schools in the district had direct exposure to CoVID-19.”

The county health leader Dr. Peter Beilenson said: “the student is now home and is doing well.”

Following the incident, the school district announced that all classes and student-related activities scheduled till March 13 were canceled.

“The Elk Grove Unified School District takes student and staff safety and well-being seriously. Elk Grove Unified will continue to update its community as we receive any new information from the state and county public health services,” the district said in a statement.

The district operates a total of 67 schools including 42 elementary schools, nine comprehensive high schools, nine middle schools, four alternative education schools – including a virtual academy, a special education school, an adult education program and a dependent charter school.