Positive cases confirmed at Langley, CMU

Sheriff’s deputy tests negative

Pittsburgh Public Schools announced Friday that a Langley school staff member has tested positive for COVID-19. The district closed the school for graband-go meals Wednesday upon notification that the staff member was exposed to a presumptive positive case of COVID-19.

Also Friday, Carnegie Mellon University announced a student had tested positive, and an Allegheny County sheriff’s deputy who had symptoms has tested negative for the disease, the sheriff’s office said.

In addition, three students and a staff member at four Pittsburgh Public Schools may have had indirect exposure to someone with a confirmed case of COVID-19, a school district spokeswoman said in a statement Friday morning.

Ebony Pugh said families and staff at Brashear High School, Carrick High School, Oliver Citywide Academy and South Hills received a robocall Friday morning alerting them of the potential indirect exposure to the virus. The indirect exposure occurred prior to the closure of the district.

The potential exposure happened while students were completing a vocational education program off-site at a community organization. In addition, a staff member assigned to Oliver Citywide Academy had contact with the students before the closure of schools, Ms. Pugh said in a statement.

The grab-and-go meal site at Oliver will discontinue as a result of the exposure.

Carrick has been cleaned since the exposure, while Brashear and South Hills are scheduled for deep cleaning, Ms. Pugh said.

The school district said it will continue using its robocalling system to keep families and staff informed. Families can submit a ticket through the district’s Let’s Talk system at www.pghschools.org/LetsTalk to update their telephone number to ensure they receive calls.

A release from Carnegie Mellon said one of its students contracted the virus after returning to Pittsburgh from spring break. The student, whose gender was not given, was last on campus March 16 to receive testing from CMU’s University Health Services.

“Communication with those who have been in close contact with the individual is in progress, and they will be required to also self-isolate for 14 days,” CMU President Farnam Jahanian wrote in the release. “Because of privacy laws, we are not able to provide additional information about the individual.”

The university said the student will remain in selfisolation and will be monitored until recovering at an off-campus residence.

“We are working closely with the Allegheny County Health Department and University Health Services to take the appropriate steps to ensure the health and safety of our campus community,” Mr. Jahanian wrote.

The county sheriff’s deputy, meanwhile, tested negative for COVID-19 after 15 deputies were sent home Wednesday due to concerns he’d contracted the virus and exposed them.

According to a news release from the sheriff’s office, the deputy believed he might have contracted the virus from his son’s girlfriend, who tested positive after returning from Spain.

The deputy told the sheriff Thursday he received a negative result, the release says.

He went to work Wednesday after having taken off sick the day before. While there, he told a supervisor he felt symptoms of COVID-19, Chief Deputy Kevin Kraus said Thursday.

The 15 deputies that were relieved of duty with pay will return to work Monday, the sheriff’s office said, while the deputy will be off until he feels better.

Doctors had ordered the deputy to quarantine for 14 days.