![]() ![]() Phil Murphy’s recent executive order limiting indoor gatherings to a maximum of 10 people, which does not apply to schools, “is concerning” because “we have so many people together in our schools.” He credited the success of mitigating the coronavirus' spread to safety measures and quarantining.Īs Woodbridge Township’s number of positive COVID-19 cases increases, so does the probability of spreading the coronavirus within the school district, Zega said. Zega said the district has done “a great job” preventing outbreaks district-wide with person-to-person transmission being traced to just one Woodbridge Township school. As a result, 12 of the district's schools are currently functioning fully remote due to excessive quarantining. Zega said more than 500 students and staff have been asked to quarantine. Woodbridge Public Schools, one of New Jersey's 10 largest school districts, has recorded 94 positive cases in the last month, 63 from staff or students who were in school, and the remaining 31 studying or working fully remote. “In our schools, we’ve seen an increase in COVID-positive people.” “Those numbers have changed significantly in about a month,” Zega said. He said the transmission rate statewide has also increased from 1.14 to 1.4. ![]() READ: Piscataway, South Brunswick schools will continue all-remote learningĬiting data from the state Department of Health, Zega noted that the daily positive case rate has increased from 500 new cases per day to nearly 4,000 per day in New Jersey. “We have really tried to make this work and we felt like we did make it work, but unfortunately the conditions in our community, in our state, in our country are just making it (challenging),” Zega said. He said the district will continue in-person instruction for students receiving specialized services, including those with disabilities. Zega said the district’s 25 schools will return to their respective Phase 1 schedules, which were in place from the start of the academic year through Oct. ![]()
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