Covid-19 Guidelines

Isolate for at least 5 days, provide a copy or picture of your COVID-19 Test to your school nurse, return to activities on day 6 or later when fever-free for at least  24 hrs., and other symptoms are significantly improved.
Wear a mask at all times when around others for an additional 5 days (i.e., through day 10). 

When you have COVID-19, isolation is counted in days, as follows:

If you had no symptoms

• Day 0 is the day you were tested (not the day you received your positive test result)
• Day 1 is the first full day following the day you were tested
• If you develop symptoms within 10 days of when you were tested, the clock restarts at day 0 on the day of symptom onset

If you had symptoms

• Day 0 of isolation is the day of symptom onset, regardless of when you tested positive
• Day 1 is the first full day after the day your symptoms started
   

Isolate at home.  

Test for COVID-19 (either self-test or at a testing site). 

If the test result is negative, provide a copy or picture to your school nurse, return to activities when fever-free for at least 24 hrs., and other symptoms are significantly improved. 

If symptoms persist, it is recommended to take additional rapid COVID-19 tests until symptoms resolve. 

If the test result is positive, isolate for at least 5 days, provide a copy or picture to your school nurse, return to activities on day 6 or later when fever-free for at least  24 hrs., and other symptoms are significantly improved. Wear a mask at all times when around others for an additional 5 days (i.e., through day 10).

Please note, that if a child develops COVID-19 symptoms while in school, the school nurse will contact the parent/guardian to arrange dismissal.  These symptomatic students will be provided a mask while they wait in the nurse’s office to be dismissed from school. 
 

If a staff or student has symptoms and lives with a person who recently tested positive for COVID-19 (within the past 2 weeks), these individuals should stay home until their symptoms resolve and test for COVID-19 immediately and again on day 5.  Anyone testing positive for COVID-19 should complete NPS isolation guidelines.

If you were exposed to the virus that causes COVID-19 or have been told by a healthcare provider or public health authority that you were exposed: 

• Wear a mask as soon as you find out you were exposed.
  • Start counting from Day 1
  • Day 0 is the day of your last exposure to someone with COVID-19
  • Day 1 is the first full day after your last exposure
• Get tested at least 5 full days after your last exposure. Test even if you don’t develop symptoms.
  • If the test result is negative, provide a copy or picture to your school nurse, continue taking precautions through day 10,  and wear a high-quality mask through day 10. 

You can still develop COVID-19 symptoms up to 10 days after you have been exposed. If symptoms develop, isolate, test, and follow the NPS Isolation Guidelines if you become positive.  

Naugatuck Public Schools works closely with the Naugatuck Valley Health Department (NVHD).  Based on COVID-19 Community Levels the NVHD will collaborate with the Naugatuck Public Schools to consider when to apply enhanced measures for the prevention of respiratory viral diseases (e.g., COVID-19, influenza).

Naugatuck Public Schools will continue to update the COVID-19 Dashboard M-F on its website. This dashboard contains the current positive COVID-19 cases currently isolating by school, and the total number of positive COVID-19 cases for the current school year.  

We will no longer be sending daily notifications of confirmed COVID-19 cases through ParentSquare.