WCPS reports two COVID clusters at Norwayne Middle

Wayne County Public Schools reported two separate COVID-19 clusters at Norwayne Middle School today.

The clusters involve a total of 11 students — five students in an in-school cluster and six in a football team cluster.

“We learned about the two separate reported cases last Thursday and Friday. Through contact tracing and follow-up investigations this week we learned about the additional cases, which we believe can be reasonably connected within each cluster,” Superintendent Dr. David Lewis said in a news release.

As part of its COVID-19 response protocols, WCPS reported the cluster to the local health department. In a child care or school setting, NCDHHS defines a COVID-19 cluster as a minimum of five laboratory confirmed cases with illness onsets or initial positive results within a 14-day period and plausible epidemiologic linkage between cases.