Quincy Kindergartners In Weeklong Quarantine After COVID Outbreak

QUINCY, MA — A kindergarten class at Beechwood Knoll Elementary School will quarantine for the next week after seven students and staff members tested positive for COVID-19.

The positive diagnoses began on Friday, Nov. 12 and continued through Tuesday, Principal Janet J. Loftus said in a letter to parents on Tuesday.

"After consulting with the Quincy Health Department and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the parents of the other students in the classroom have been notified that their students should remain home and quarantine for the next seven days," Loftus said in her letter.

Students and staff in the affected classroom can return to school on Wednesday, Nov. 24, provided they test negative for COVID-19 and remain asymptomatic, Loftus said.

Beechwood Knoll isn't the only Boston area school to be affected by COVID-19 cases — Curley K-8 School in Jamaica Plain closed entirely to in-person learning on Wednesday, Nov. 1o after dozens of people in the district tested positive over three weeks.

Curley K-8 School is set to reopen on Monday, Nov. 22.