Mayor de Blasio and the United Federation of Teachers have agreed to replace the rule that triggered school building shut-downs if two or more unrelated cases of coronavirus were detected.
Now schools will close if there are four or more cases of coronavirus detected in different classrooms within a week, and if contact tracers in the situation room determine that the cases were unrelated. In cases where there is more than one school located within a building, the individual school will close but not the entire building.
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