Safekey students at school with COVID cases barred from rec centers

The City of Henderson is prohibiting Lamping Elementary School students who are registered successful the Safekey programme from attending activities astatine metropolis recreational centers portion the schoolhouse is operating nether region acquisition following aggregate COVID-19 cases astatine the school.

The metropolis cannot hazard admitting the students to the recreational centers due to the fact that it doesn’t cognize who tested affirmative for COVID-19 oregon was exposed, metropolis spokeswoman Kathleen Richards explained Tuesday. The move, she said, is “to forestall imaginable COVID vulnerability to different patrons utilizing metropolis facilities.”

The city’s process for immoderate Safekey pupil who’s exposed to idiosyncratic who tests affirmative for COVID-19 is “to notify the parents and counsel that their kid stay successful quarantine for 10 days,” Richards said via email. The prohibition applies to recreation programs and pools during the 10-day quarantine period, unless students supply impervious of a caller antagonistic trial result, she said.

Kids who are not enrolled successful Safekey, a before- and after-school programme tally by Henderson astatine Clark County District campuses wrong the metropolis limits, tin freely be activities astatine the rec centers due to the fact that the metropolis has nary mode of identifying them arsenic Lamping students.

The metropolis doesn’t cognize who tested affirmative owed to “privacy protection” nether the national Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and “therefore what students whitethorn person been exposed,” Richards said.

All Lamping Elementary unit and students were switched to region learning connected Aug. 17 aft “multiple individuals” tested affirmative for the illness caused by the caller coronavirus. The schoolhouse is expected to instrumentality to in-person teaching connected Aug. 30.

Safekey is not operating astatine Lamping Elementary portion the schoolhouse is successful region education, Richards said. About 60 students are registered for the program, she said.

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