1 New Coronavirus Outbreak Reported In Oakland County Schools

OAKLAND COUNTY, MI — One school in Oakland County has reported a new outbreak of the coronavirus, state health officials reported Monday.

Two students at Oxford Middle School have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the state

In total, 26 schools in Michigan reported new outbreaks of the coronavirus, the state said.


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While Oakland County had just one new outbreak reported Monday, the county has three ongoing outbreaks in its schools, according to the state.

Two students at Brookfield Academy in Troy had tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a Sept. 21 report.

Novi High School reported Sept. 21 that nine students tested positive for COVID-19.

Oakland University in Rochester reported Sept. 28 that seven students had tested positive for the coronavirus.

It's important to note that a coronavirus outbreak is different than a case. A COVID-19 outbreak is defined as two or more cases with a link by place and time indicating a shared exposure outside of a household.

The information provided by the state on Monday includes K-12, college and university school name, address, number of cases and if the cases involved staff, students or both. Students or staff exposed to COVID-19 outside the school building and are not thought to have spread the virus in the school due to quarantine or self-isolation are not included in the data.

Many factors, including the lack of ability to conduct effective contact tracing in certain settings, may result in underreporting of outbreaks, MDHHS said. This information does not provide a complete picture of school outbreaks in Michigan and the absence of identified outbreaks in a school does not mean it is not experiencing an outbreak.

Here are the new coronavirus outbreaks reported by the state Monday:

County

School

City

Grades

Cases

Branch

Max Larsen Elementary School

Coldwater

Pre-school - elementary

2

Kalamazoo

Cooper Elementary School

Kalamazoo

Pre-school - elementary

2

Kent

Breton Downs Elementary

Grand Rapids

Pre-school - elementary

2

Alger

Munising Public Schools

Munising

Pre-school - elementary

2

Macomb

Clinton Valley Elementary School

Mount Clemens

Pre-school - elementary

3

Macomb

Miami Elementary School

Clinton Township

Pre-school - elementary

2

Wayne

Metro Charter Academy

Romulus

Pre-school - elementary

3

Menominee

Bark River-Harris Schools

Harris

Junior high/middle school

7

Kent

Lowell Middle School

Lowell

Junior high/middle school

2

Mackinac

Three Lakes Academy

Curtis

Junior high/middle school

5

Macomb

St. Lawrence Catholic School

Utica

Junior high/middle school

4

Oakland

Oxford Middle School

Oxford

Junior high/middle school

2

Ottawa

Harbor Lights Middle School

Holland

Junior high/middle school

2

Van Buren

Lawton Public School

Lawton

Junior high/middle school

2

Delta

Gladstone High School

Gladstone

High school

2

Kent

Wyoming High School

Wyoming

High school

3

Ottawa

Jenison High School

Jenison

High school

3

Ottawa

Hudsonville High School

Hudsonville

High School

3

Washtenaw

Father Gabriel Richard HS

Ann Arbor

High school

12

Wayne

Roosevelt High School

Wyandotte

High school

3

Isabella

Central Michigan University

Mt. Pleasant

College - undergraduate

11

Delta

Bay College

Escanaba

College - undergraduate

10

Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo College

Kalamazoo

College - undergraduate

21

Livingston

Cleary University

Howell

College - undergraduate

2

Washtenaw

Washtenaw Community College

Ann Arbor

College - undergraduate

2

Houghton

Michigan Technological University

Houghton

College - undergraduate

4



This article originally appeared on the Troy Patch