IDPH: 13 schools in southern Illinois with potential COVID-19 exposure from contact tracing

(WSIL) -- Several schools in southern Illinois may have an exposure to COVID-19.

On Friday, the Illinois Department of Public Health updated its list of schools with potential COVID-19 exposures. The data represents information collected through contact tracing.

Location information is gathered by asking cases to recall locations visited in the 14 days preceding symptom onset or specimen collection if symptoms are not present.

School data show the number of confirmed and probable cases who listed a school as a place visited, but that does not mean it is where they were infected. Only schools where names have been provided are included.

Data includes information elicited from cases opened within the previous 30 days from date of update.

According to Friday's numbers, In southern Illinois, that includes 13 different schools.

Here is a list of schools in our region with COVID-19 exposures:

Bethel Grade School
Carrier Mills-Stonefort Elementary
Carterville High School
Century Elementary School
Christ Our Savior Lutheran HS
Davie/Lincoln Elementary School
Hardin County High School
Marion Jr. High
Massac County High School
Metropolis Elementary School
Pinckneyville Elementary School
Vienna High School
Zadok Casey Middle School

Data includes information elicited from cases opened within the previous 30 days from date of update.

The number of schools which have reported an outbreak has also increased from two weeks ago. On Friday, Sept. 3, IDPH reported As of Friday, Sept. 10,

The outbreaks include those that have been identified by the school’s local health department to have at least two COVID-19 cases among people who may have a shared exposure on school grounds and come from different households.