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4 Greenwich Village Schools Dealing With COVID-19 Cases: DOE
A collection of Greenwich Village schools are under a partial quarantine due to recent COVID-19 cases. Find out which.
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NY — Two weeks after the city began vaccinating youngsters against COVID-19, multiple schools in Greenwich Village are still swept up in virus-prevention protocols, according to the Department of Education.
As of Monday morning, four schools in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood have imposed partial quarantines due to coronavirus exposure, according to the interactive map from the Department of Education.
Partial quarantines
These schools were under partial classroom quarantines, in which only a subset of students in a classroom are required to quarantine while others can keep attending school.
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M.S. 297: 75 Morton Street
- The Greenwich Village school has one partial classroom quarantine that started on Nov. 22 and will end on Nov. 29.
P.S. 3 Charrette School: 490 Hudson Street
Find out what's happening in West Villagefor free with the latest updates from Patch.
- The Greenwich Village school has one partial classroom quarantine that started on Nov. 20 and will end on Nov. 26.
P.S. 41 Greenwich Village: 116 West 11th Street
- The Greenwich Village school has one partial classroom quarantine that started on Nov. 22 and will end on Nov. 29.
Harvest Collegiate High School: 34 West 14th Street
- The Lower Manhattan school has one partial classroom quarantine that started on Nov. 19 and will end on Nov. 26.
Once a common headache for parents, full school closures have become far less common this year thanks to a revised policy by the DOE.
The vaccine rollout for children aged 5-11 began earlier in November thanks to federal approval. Some school-based vaccination sites were quickly plagued by long lines and supply shortfalls — though Mayor Bill de Blasio chalked that up as a positive sign of strong interest.
"We have been pleasantly surprised at how big the response has been at the school level," he said last week. About 17,000 kids got their shots over the first three-day period.
Book a vaccine appointment at vaccinefinder.nyc.gov, or for state-run sites, ny.gov/vaccine.
Patch reporter Nick Garber contributed to this report
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