Last Friday, Roosevelt Island PS/IS 217 Principal Mandana Beckman informed parents of students that two or more members of the school community tested positive for Covid-19 within 7 days of each other resulting in the school building closing for 24 hours on Monday, January 11 to investigate.
Today, Ms Beckman sent an update adding that others may have been exposed at the school. According to excerpts from Ms Beckman’s January 10 letter (full letter below)
Subject: Confirmed Case of COVID-19, close contacts quarantined
Dear P.S./I.S. 217 Roosevelt Island at 645 MAIN STREET Community: The NYC
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) and the NYC Test + Trace Corps
(T2) have determined that a member of our school community has tested
positive for COVID-19, and may have exposed others while at school…
Below are full copies of Principal Beckman’s letters.
There was another positive Covid 19 test at the school reported December 8.
