We are also pleased to share that the number of The Charles School community members who have had to quarantine or isolate due to COVID has decreased significantly. We continue to work hard to make our school a safe & healthy community and it is clear that our efforts have been successful.
We want to share that a new recommendation was released this week by the Ohio Department of Health (“Mask to Stay”) which states that groups of students do not need to quarantine if the individual had direct contact with a positive case of COVID-19, regardless of vaccination status, if they have been consistently following mask guidelines while at school and continue to wear a mask for 14 days after their last day of exposure.
Therefore, for future cases of community members testing positive, if we need to consider quarantining, TCS will only require students to quarantine if they do not follow the school's mask wearing expectations consistently.
If you have any questions, contact The Charles School at (614) 258-8588 or the Columbus Public Health at (614) 645-7417. Thank you for helping to keep our community safe and to slow the spread of COVID-19 in our community and school. For answers to your COVID-19 questions, call 1-833-4-ASK-ODH (1-833-427-5634) or visit coronavirus.ohio.gov.
