Two new COVID-19 cases prompt widespread testing

As of Dec. 2, the school has five cases and the district has 32.

Clutching bright pink call slips, students flocked to the health office on Dec. 3, following the school’s second instance of discovering COVID-19 cases after its first record on Nov. 4.

On the night of Dec. 2, assistant principal Brian Thompson informed the staff that a student and an adult have tested positive for COVID-19, amounting to a total of five cases — three adults, two students — thus far into the year at the school and 32 in the district, 75% of which were found at Los Gatos High School, according to the LGSUHSD Dashboard.

The student’s close contacts — seven staff members and about 150 students from their seven classes — were scheduled to take emergency PCR testing on Dec. 3 and a second time on Dec. 8. The adult had no close contacts on campus, Thompson said.