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February 3, 2022 Update

  Dear North Reading Public Schools Community, I’m writing today to provide a few updates related to COVID-19 and our schools. COVID-19 Cases and Testing Updates For cases reported in the month of January, which includes those positive cases from December 23, 2021 through January 31, 2022, we have a total of  539 cases, including 457 students and 82 staff  positive cases. For February we have  25 students  and  1 staff  positive cases. Please review  the dashboard  for school-based updates and additional information. COVID-19 Testing Updates Today is the first day of our at-home testing program for students and the second day for staff. Beginning tomorrow our nurses will transition away from contact tracing and the test and stay program and focus their attention on symptomatic and positive cases only. Those who are close contacts for outside of school will continue to follow Massachusetts Department of Public Health guidelines. We w...