Buckingham Friends Closed Tuesday Due To Coronavirus Exposure

BUCKINGHAM TOWNSHIP, PA — Two Bucks County schools, including Buckingham Friends, will be closed Tuesday due to exposure to the new coronavirus.

A student at Buckingham Friends may have come in contact with a person who tested presumptively positive for coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. Neshaminy High School will be closed Tuesday after a student was in direct contact with a healthcare provider at a Children's Hospital of Philadelphia facility in King of Prussia who later tested positive for the new coronavirus.

Both closings were described as precautionary, according to information from Bucks County. Neither student has shown any symptoms of the virus, said Dr. David Damsker, director of the Bucks County Health Department.

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Both schools will be closed through at least Tuesday. The affected families have been asked to quarantine themselves at home for the time being, Damsker said.

As of Monday afternoon, Pennsylvania has 10 presumptive positive cases of coronavirus. The positive test results have been sent to the Centers for Disease Control for confirmation. Three people are hospitalized, one is in critical condition. The rest are in isolation.

Neshaminy's closure was one of many in the area announced Monday due to students' contact with the doctor.

On Friday, the Central Bucks School District closed five schools over exposure concerns. The schools reopened Monday.

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