4 Macomb County Schools Report New Coronavirus Outbreaks

MACOMB COUNTY, MI — Four Macomb County schools were among the 35 Michigan schools that reported new outbreaks of the coronavirus Monday.

Two staff at the Bozymowski Center in Sterling Heights, two staff at Fountain Elemetnary in Roseville, to staff at Heritage Junior High in Sterling Heights and two students at Richmond High School in Richmond have tested positive for the coronavirus, the state said.

In addition to the four new outbreaks in Macomb County schools, the state said 27 schools in the county remain sites of ongoing coronavirus outbreaks.

Those sites are:

• Fox Elementary
• Masonic Heights Elementary School
• Sequoyah Elementary -Bozymowski
• St. Peter Lutheran School
• Walt Disney Elementary School
• Ardmore Elementary
• Immanuel Lutheran
• Iroquois Middle School
• Warren Woods Middle School
• Anchor Bay Middle School South
• Kennedy Middle School
• Roseville Middle School
• Eastland Middle School
• Jefferson Middle School
• Richmond Middle School
• Dakota High School
• Lakeview High School
• Lakeshore High School
• Fraser High School
• Henry Ford II High School
• Anchor Bay High School
• Cousino Senior High School
• Regina High School
• Roseville High School
• Fitzgerald High School
• Shelby Junior High School
• Warren Woods Towers High School

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It's important to note that a coronavirus outbreak is different than a case. A COVID-19 outbreak is defined as two or more cases with a link by place and time indicating a shared exposure outside of a household.

The information provided by the state on Monday includes K-12, college and university school name, address, number of cases and if the cases involved staff, students or both. Students or staff exposed to COVID-19 outside the school building and are not thought to have spread the virus in the school due to quarantine or self-isolation are not included in the data.

Many factors, including the lack of ability to conduct effective contact tracing in certain settings, may result in underreporting of outbreaks, MDHHS said. This information does not provide a complete picture of school outbreaks in Michigan and the absence of identified outbreaks in a school does not mean it is not experiencing an outbreak.

Here are the new coronavirus outbreaks reported by the state Monday: