School outbreaks number 49 this week

Michigan has identified 49 new school outbreaks of COVID-19, impacting more than 200 students and staff.

The weekly report listed the schools, and the outbreaks totaled 204 confirmed infections.

An outbreak is when two or more cases from different households who may have shared exposure on school grounds. Not included in this list is circumstance where a student or staff member exposed to COVID-19 outside of school grounds and are not thought to have spread it to others at school.

Four of the outbreaks impacted 10 or more people.

The biggest outbreak was from Hillsdale College in Hillsdale County, where 18 students and staff had been stricken.

Three counties had four schools identified with outbreaks: Wayne County, Macomb County, and Kent County — all with more than 18,000 cases.

In Macomb County, the schools identified were:

• Fox Elementary in Macomb Township, with two cases

• Warren Woods Middle School in Warren with three cases involving staff

• Fraser High School in Fraser with two cases involving staff

• Henry Ford II High School in Sterling Heights with two cases.

The schools in Wayne County include:

• St. Anselm Elementary in Dearborn Heights with three cases

• Davidson Middle School in Southgate with three cases

• Gabriel Richard Catholic High School with two students impacted

• Munger, an administrative site, in Detroit with five staff members impacted.

In Oakland County, the only school listed was Bloomfield Christian Upper School in Bloomfield Hills, where two have been infected.

Last week, 45 schools were identified, and the week before that, 30 schools were on the list.