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A large COVID-19 outbreak in a high school 10 days after schools’ reopening, Israel, May 2020

The first case in the public school was identified on May 26, and the second on May 27. The two cases were not found to be epidemiologically linked and further testing of all students and staff found 153 students (attack rate 13.2%) and 25 staff (attack rate 16.6%) tested positive for COVID-19. The outbreak at the single school has been associated with a total of 265 COVID-19 cases including students, staff, friends, and relatives.

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Updated 2020-07-31

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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)

Biomedical Sciences