Twenty-one people are in isolation after a COVID-19 exposure at St. Joseph Elementary School in Kelowna.
It’s the third Kelowna school to report a COVID-19 exposure in the last two weeks.
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Interior Health said a single case has been identified associated with St. Joseph Elementary.
The person was at the school on Oct. 21 and 22.
St. Joseph Elementary is an independent school, part of the Catholic Independent Schools of the Nelson Diocese.
Kelowna Secondary School and Kelowna francophone school, École de l’Anse-au-sable have also experienced exposures since Oct 13.
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A member of the school’s community acquired the virus from a household member and that case is unrelated to the first case announced on Sunday, according to a school district spokesperson.
Meanwhile, more than 175 people are in self-isolation due to exposure to 11 cases of COVID-19 discovered at École de l’Anse-au-sable.
École de l’Anse-au-sable is home to more than 350 students from kindergarten to Grade 12 and has been shut down until Nov. 5 due to a lack of staff to safely operate, according to School District 93, B.C.’s Francophone school authority.
–With files from Doris Bregolisse