APTOS—Pajaro Valley Unified School District announced Wednesday it is closing Rio Del Mar Elementary School for two days after a person there tested positive for coronavirus.
District officials are not saying what the person’s relationship to the school is. They were last at the school on Feb. 28, making Friday the end of the two-week incubation period suggested for coronavirus-related school closures, PVUSD spokeswoman Alicia Jimenez said.
The patient is stable and the exposure is still under investigation, Santa Cruz County spokesman Jason Hoppin said.
The case at Rio Del Mar marked one of two additional confirmed cases in the county Wednesday, bringing the total to four.
The second case is a patient who has symptoms of COVID-19 on Tuesday night. The patient is isolated and hospitalized in a different county and is recovering.
“Although the exposure is still under investigation, it is unlikely that it was acquired through community-spread in Santa Cruz County,” Hoppin said.
