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Contact tracing, cleaning, after student tests positive

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BEDFORD, N.H. (AP) — School is continuing as scheduled in a New Hampshire school district after one student tested positive for COVID-19, triggering a contact tracing effort and cleaning at the school. WMUR-TV reports the Riddle Brook School student in Bedford who tested positive is suspected to have contracted the virus at a sports camp in another town. The student had been in the building on Friday. Half of the class was at the school, which is on a hybrid learning system. The test for the student, who was asymptomatic, came back positive on Saturday. Families were notified Sunday with an email and voicemail.

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