Jon Johnson File Photo/Gila Herald: Pima Schools will be closed Thursday due to the threat of an unknown illness.
By Jon Johnson
PIMA – Students in the Pima School District will have an early jump on its spring break as all of the schools will be closed Thursday due to an “unknown illness.”
Pima runs on a four-day week and already has Friday off and next week the school is closed for spring break.
On Wednesday night, the district alerted parents and issued a release concerning the closure.
“As you know, the nation is being gripped by the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19),” the release stated. “We have received a report of possible exposure to an unknown illness for some students at Pima Elementary School. Parents of those students have received separate notification. Out of an abundance of caution, while the county health department determines if this, in fact, an incidence of coronavirus, Pima Schools will be closed for Thursday, March 12. Information about extracurricular activities will come in subsequent notifications.”
The school had already put in extra hours to sanitize common surfaces and had alerted students to increase hand washing to help slow the spread of any illness.
To date, there have been no positive cases for COVID-19 in Graham County.
