Pittsville Public School District - COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Updates

COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Updates

PITTSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT COVID-19 DATA UPDATE
*Number of Active Staff and Student Positive Cases and Quarantines as of January 14, 2021 at 3:00 PM.
	ELEMENTARY	HIGH SCHOOL	STAFF	CHILD CARE	TOTAL
Positive Cases	0	1	0	0	1
Quarantined	7	2	1	0	10
* Tested positive for coronavirus and is isolating at home. ** Was in close contact with someone who tested positive and is quarantined at home.

NEW! Delay Your Travel if you... Know When to Delay your Travel to Avoid Spreading COVID-19.

Notifying Your Own Close Contacts. Helps people who tested positive reach out to their close contacts and provide info to them.

Next Steps After You Are Diagnosed. To guide people in their isolation.

Isolation Release Times: Asymptomatic. Helps people who didn’t have symptoms figure out how long to isolate.

Isolation Release Times: Symptomatic. Helps people with symptoms figure out how long to isolate.

Next Steps: Close Contacts of Someone with COVID-19. Helps guide people who should be in quarantine due to close contact.

Quarantine Release Times for Household Contact. To guide people in determining how long household members of a positive case should quarantine.

Quarantine Release Times for Close Contact. To guide people in determining how long to quarantine if they had a non-household exposure.

What does the incubation period look like for COVID-19? From the Wood County Health Department

Help Protect your Health From COVID-19. Following these simple steps can help protect you and your community from the coronavirus, the flu, and other common illness.

UPDATED! COVID-19 Testing for Students and Families (Spanish) COVID-19 testing is FREE for anyone who is experiencing a symptom of COVID-19 or if they are identified as a close contact. There are no "out of pocket" expenses for getting testing.

Health Screening Checklist for Children Parents, this checklist can be helpful in screening your child daily for symptoms of COVID-19.

TIPS FOR PARENTS whose Children are Returning to In-Person, Virtual, or Hybrid Learning

Sorting Out Coronavirus Fact From Fiction, M3 Insurance

Please review the attached WORKING DRAFT of guidelines for schools and parents/guardians.

This information has been provided by the Wood County Health Department.

WORKING DRAFT: COVID-19 Tools for Schools, September 15-2020

What You Can Do and Our Cleaning Measures

Pittsville School District has a routine cleaning regimen in place to help reduce the spread of germs and communicable disease. In addition to our regular cleaning and disinfection, we are increasing the cleaning of high-touch areas and hard and soft surface items throughout the day. We will follow all guidelines of the CDC and our local and state health departments.

We all play a role in helping reduce the spread of communicable disease. We are asking our students, staff and families to practice regular preventive actions (see flyer in English, Spanish, Hmong and Mandarin Chinese) including:

Wash your hands regularly, for 20 seconds, using soap and hot water. Make sure to wash your fingertips. This is especially important after using the restroom, coughing or sneezing into your hands, and before preparing or consuming food.
Avoid coughing or sneezing into your hands or in the air. Always try to cough or sneeze into a tissue, and then throw the tissue away. If you don’t have a tissue, cough/sneeze into your arm.
As much as you can, avoid touching your eyes, mouth and nose.
If children are feeling sick, please keep them home from school. Families should have a plan in place for keeping your child home, picking up your child if they are sent home sick, and if schools are closed.

Travel Restrictions

This is a rapidly evolving situation, with the World Health Organization declaring Coronavirus a pandemic, the President and Governor declaring it a public health emergency and the President issuing a month-long ban effective March 13 on all travel from Europe, including the UK and Ireland, to the U.S.

The state of Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) is asking schools and organizations to:

Cancel events with over 250 people
Avoid non-essential domestic travel
Avoid traveling to areas in the US with sustained community transmission of COVID-19 (currently Washington, New York, and California). See map of US sustained community transmission of COVID-19.
Self-quarantine for 14 days upon return for anyone who travels to any U.S. states with confirmed community spread of COVID-19.

Many families have travel plans for spring break. If your family is planning to travel to a country with a Level 3 travel health notice, please contact the your school's office before returning to school. The CDC is asking you to self-quarantine for 14 days. Read more about travel on the CDC's website.

We appreciate your patience with this fluid situation and we will continue to update you as needed. Please rest assured that we will continue to put your students’ safety first. If you have any questions, reach out to Mr. Figueroa, District Administrator at 715-884-6694 or figuerod@pittsville.k12.wi.us.