Five more COVID-19 cases at Lindsay Thurber

Five more cases of COVID-19 have been identified among individuals at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School.

“To be clear, in the past week we have been made aware of nine individuals from our school population of approximately 1900 people that have been infected,” Principal Chris Good said Thursday in a notification letter to parents and guardians.

“At this point in time we have not received any information that transmission is happening in our school. Our investigations lead us to believe that most of these cases have been brought into our school from the community,” Good added, noting that Alberta Health Services will investigate the origins of all the cases and make recommendations if necessary.

Prior to this week, Lindsay Thurber had reported just one case of COVID-19 since the start of the school year.