San Diego County school district changes closure criteria after positive cases

A school district in San Diego County has changed criteria for closing middle schools and high schools after six students tested positive at five schools in the first week after reopening, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Under the new rules at Vista Unified, if more than one positive case is reported at a school, the entire school campus will close for two weeks, and if three middle or high schools report at least one positive case, all three campuses will close.

The previous guidelines only required students and teachers in classes with a person who tested positive to quarantine for 14 days. That caused schools to have to hire substitutes to cover other class periods for teachers who were quarantined, and students who were quarantined were unable to attend classes by teachers who had not been quarantined.