12 More NYC School Buildings Struck By Coronavirus

NEW YORK CITY — Tests confirmed coronavirus cases at 12 city school buildings on a single day, officials said.

All the cases were confirmed Wednesday and included in a regular Department of Education update on COVID-19 in school buildings.

One building — Nuestros Niños Day Care Center in Brooklyn — had two confirmed cases, prompting an automatic 24-hour closure, officials said.

“The investigation is complete, close contacts are quarantined, and the building is clear to reopen tomorrow (Friday),” a release states.

Five school buildings had confirmed cases where an infected person walked into the facility, officials said. Those are:

1. KBVC Nuestros Niños Day Care (South 4th Street)
2. KBGS Georgia L. McMurray Day Care Early Childhood Center
3. K233 P.S. 233 Langston Hughes
4. Q143 P.S. 143 Louis Armstrong
5. R861 Elizabeth A. Connelly Campus

The remaining seven buildings had confirmed cases where the people didn’t step into the building. Those are:

1. K167 New Bridges Elementary
2. KBQU Keshet Learning Center
3. K329 P.S. K771
4. M440 Bayard Rustin Educational Campus
5. Q336 College Point Collaborative
6. QAYL 82nd Street Academics
7. X094 P.S. 094 Kings College School

The results followed Tuesday’s release that 13 schools had confirmed coronavirus cases. There wasn’t any overlap between the lists, aside from Nuestros Niños Day Care.

The Tuesday results included a single case at Staten Island’s I.S. 051 Edwin Markham. That case prompted the quarantine of 50 staff members at the school who didn’t follow social distancing protocols, the New York Post reported.