This electron microscope image, Fort Detrick, Mo. Available and color-enhanced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases integrated research facility, the novel Coronavirus SARS-Covi-2 virus particles, orange, show different from the patient. (National Institutes of Health through NIAID / AP)
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In an update to its Friday report, the Keuga County Health Department says there are six more confirmed COVID-19 cases, including one from the Port Byron Central School District.
Three men, a woman, a teenager and a child were tested positive for the virus. According to the health department, contact tracing investigations are underway in six cases.
The Port Byron School District has confirmed the positive case in a post on its Facebook page. The district compared its period without a positive COVID-19 case to the legend of the New York Yankees, Jo Dimagigo’s famous 56-game hitting streak.
“We didn’t even make it to Di Di Maggio for 56 days, but our streak was still very impressive,” District writes. It is the first Covid-19 case in the district.
The district credited its pod system for reducing how many students were affected by the positive case. In the pod system, students live in the same classroom during the school day.
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After the positive test result is notified, the other students in the pod remain independent and each parent receives a call from the school principal and nurse, the district says. A letter was also sent to each parent as it was the district’s first COVID-19 case.
Because quarantine is limited to one pod, classes will resume on Monday.
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