Vancouver, North Shore schools report new coronavirus exposures

Seycove Secondary in North Vancouver (Google Street View)

Vancouver Coastal Health has added three more schools in Vancouver, North Vancouver, and West Vancouver to its list of coronavirus exposures.

Admiral Seymour Elementary in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood had someone come to school while infected on October 5 and 6, according to the health authority.

Seycove Secondary School in North Vancouver also had someone show up while contagious from September 30 to October 5.

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Finally, Ridgeview Elementary School in West Vancouver had a coronavirus-positive individual at school on October 2, 5, and 9.

Vancouver Coastal Health’s contact tracers will phone all close contacts of the confirmed cases, and families who have not been contacted directly by the health authority can continue going to school as normal.