Bladen County Public Library issued the following announcement on Feb. 23.
The NC Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) recently updated the Strong Schools NC Toolkit for COVID-19 protocols. Effective, Monday, February 21, 2022, individual contact tracing and exclusion from school of asymptomatic people after an identified exposure is no longer recommended statewide in K-12 schools.
Bladen County Schools’ nurses will continue to notify parents of possible exposures at the class, group or team level so that individuals may monitor for symptoms, but students and staff will no longer be required to quarantine from school due to exposure and individual exposure and individual exposure notification will no longer be made.
Students and staff who are symptomatic or who test positive for COVID-19 will continue to follow the protocol of 5 days isolation followed by an additional 5 days of strict mask wearing upon returning to school.
As a reminder, COVID-19 symptoms include: fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea.
For more information or to read the full text of the updated Stronger Schools NC Toolkit, please visit our website, https://www.bladen.k12.nc.us/.
Thank you for continuing to support BCS as we navigate these changes.
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