GREENWICH — Because the city’s charge of COVID-19 positivity fell under 1 % for the primary time this fall, the Greenwich Public Faculties reported simply 5 instances of the coronavirus in its neighborhood, in line with the Tuesday replace on the district’s on-line tracker.
That brings the entire variety of COVID-19 instances to 95 since lessons started Sept. 1, in line with the tracker.
There are presently seven lively instances of COVID-19 within the college district, with 4 instances at North Mianus and one case every at Cos Cob, Japanese Center and Julian Curtiss, in line with the tracker. All seven instances are amongst college students, with 5 instances attributed to household or outdoors exercise and two resulting from undetermined origin, in line with the district.
The city reported a charge of positivity of 0.9 % from Oct. 17 to Oct. 30, with fewer than 5 new instances per 100,000 individuals. That’s down from a charge of three.3 %, with 17.6 instances per 100,000 individuals, on the finish of August within the days simply earlier than college began, in line with the tracker.
The low charge of positivity comes as a brand new cohort of the inhabitants — kids ages 5 to 11 — grew to become eligible to obtain the COVID-19 vaccine.
The federal Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention gave last approval final week for younger kids — lots of whom are college students in elementary or center college — to get size-appropriate doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
The varsity district introduced it can maintain COVID-19 vaccine clinics at three Greenwich elementary faculties for youngsters ages 5 by means of 11.
Every clinic, arrange by the state Division of Public Well being and Griffin Hospital, will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Clinics shall be held Saturday at New Lebanon Faculty, Sunday at Hamilton Avenue Faculty and on Nov. 21 at Julian Curtiss Faculty, in line with an announcement from Greenwich Public Faculties.
All kids should be accompanied by a guardian or authorized guardian on the time they obtain their vaccination. Masks shall be required, mentioned Jonathan Supranowitz, spokesman for the Greenwich Public Faculties. Kids and fogeys ought to be ready to attend on the web site for quarter-hour after the inoculation to examine for unwanted side effects.
Greenwich Hospital started providing the COVID-19 vaccinations to kids in clinics Thursday. Appointments are required by calling 833-275-9644 or visiting www.ynhhs.org/covidvaccin
e, though hospital officers mentioned the appointments are stuffed.
There may be excessive demand for the youngsters’s vaccination, mentioned Magaly Olivero, coordinator of public and media relations at Greenwich Hospital.
“We’ve got prolonged our clinics to be till 8 p.m., and we’ve got added a further scientific day on Nov. 18 with a view to add extra appointments,” Olivero mentioned Monday. “We’re at this level totally booked on all dates.”
The Greenwich Hospital clinics are from 8 a.m. to eight p.m. in its Noble Convention Room on Thursday and Saturday, in addition to Nov. 18, Nov. 19, Nov. 21 and Nov. 28. Clinics for the second dose shall be held on Nov. 28, Dec. 2, Dec. 4, Dec. 10, Dec. 11 and Dec. 12, she mentioned.
Dad and mom who’re looking for vaccinations for his or her kids are additionally suggested to contact their pediatricians, a few of whom are administering the vaccine, Olivero mentioned.
Statewide as of Nov. 4, Connecticut’s college submission abstract of COVID-19 reported 487 instances of COVID-19 amongst college students, lecturers and employees in private and non-private faculties through the week of Oct. 28 by means of Nov. 3.
That’s up barely from the 483 instances reported through the week of Oct. 21 by means of Oct. 27. A complete of 550 instances was reported through the week of Oct. 14 by means of Oct. 20. The state updates its faculties COVID-19 information each Thursday.
The state Division of Well being “has partnered in devising a distribution plan that enables suppliers to have entry to smaller portions of vaccine, which in flip permits them to manage COVID vaccines to their sufferers,” mentioned Mark D’Antonio, YNHHS spokesman.
The Greenwich college district updates its on-line tracker each Tuesday and Friday, and the experiences of recent instances have persistently remained within the single digits since Sept. 28. Simply two new instances have been reported final Friday. For the 2020-21 college yr, a complete of 697 instances of COVID-19 have been reported districtwide.
The state’s masks mandate stays in place for all individuals in private and non-private faculties throughout Connecticut.
