Fairfield Bus Driver, Warde Student Test Positive For Coronavirus

FAIRFIELD, CT — Several new coronavirus cases were reported Wednesday across the Fairfield school district.

People who recently tested positive include a bus driver for Roger Ludlowe Middle School and Osborn Hill Elementary School, a Fairfield Warde High School student and a worker in the district’s central office, according to a message from Superintendent Mike Cummings and COVID-19 Health and Safety Compliance Liaison Angelus Papageorge.

Contact tracers determined no students qualified as close contacts of the bus driver, meaning students will not need to quarantine, the message said. The Warde student had already been quarantined, and had not been in the school building since Monday. The office employee had not been in to work since Friday.

“If there is a need for anyone to self-quarantine, they will be contacted directly by a member of the Fairfield Health Department Contact Tracing Team,” the message said.

As of 5 p.m. Wednesday, three students and three staff members across the district had the virus, according to district data. Those cases were contained to Fairfield Ludlowe and Fairfield Warde high schools, Riverfield and Holland Hill elementary schools, and the central office. Another 26 students and two staff members had recovered after testing positive.

Additionally, 54 students and staff district-wide were in quarantine Wednesday. Community members at a total of 15 district sites had tested positive, were in quarantine or both.