Officials: Students test positive for COVID-19 in Greenwich schools

GREENWICH — Three students at Brunswick School and two at Greenwich Country Day School have tested positive for COVID-19, officials at the schools said Monday. And several more students and staff are in quarantine, officials said.

Brunswick Head of School Thomas W. Philip issued a statement confirming the positive cases and explaining that the students were exposed while engaged in an off-campus youth sport. All three students are in middle school, he said.

“We have worked closely with the Department of

Health to perform an extensive contact-tracing process and, as a result, have identified several other students and/or faculty who qualify as contacts of the infected students,” Philip said.

According to Philip, the students tested positive over the weekend. In total, 23 students are currently in quarantine, though no closures are planned at Brunswick, he said.

“All divisions of the school will remain open,” Philip said.

At Greenwich Country Day School, students and families were notified Saturday that a school parent had tested positive for the virus, as had two of the parent’s three children, both of whom are Upper Elementary School students.

Both of the students are asymptomatic, according to a letter sent by Greenwich Country Day Head of School Adam Rohdie and will remain quarantined for at least 14 days. School administrators dd not respond to requests for comment Monday.

The two affected Upper Elementary School classes will be remote until Oct. 8, out of an abundance of caution, Rohdie wrote to families. But because of the school’s conservative distancing policy, the possibility of close contact was unlikely, he said. Parents may, but were not required to, seek tests for their children, he said.