Three teachers are being tested

Three city schoolteachers were tested for the coronavirus after taking trips to Italy over the February break, Mayor de Blasio said Thursday.

One of the educators, who works at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, tested negative despite showing symptoms, and the other two are awaiting test results, the mayor said. Those two teachers were in school for one day before self-quarantining at home, said Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza.

The teacher at Madison High School was one of seven teacher chaperones for a school trip over February break to one of the affected regions of Italy that also included 48 students, Mayor de Blasio said. They returned on Feb. 23.

None of the kids on the trip or the other teachers were showing symptoms, de Blasio said, but will be monitored and tested if they do.

Carranza and de Blasio did not reveal where the other two city teachers awaiting test results work, but said they will notify schools if the tests come back positive.

The Education Department is working on a central list to track all school trips, both official and unofficial, that have taken place since the coronavirus outbreak began, said Carranza.

“It’s large agency, lots of groups moving. We now have an inventory of all of these trips,” Carranza said. “Going forward we have tight controls.

De Blasio said there’s “not a single symptomatic student we know of.”

“The basic guidance to parents is if your children are healthy there’s very little to be worried about,” he added. “If your children have respiratory issues or a compromised immune system, we urge you to be very careful.”