2 Greater Latrobe School District employees test positive for covid-19

Two employees of Greater Latrobe School District tested positive for covid-19, according to Superintendent Georgia Teppert.

Administrators were informed over the weekend that the staff members were showing symptoms.

The district contacted the state Department of Health, which conducted contact tracing, according to Teppert.

No students were affected.

Teppert said she could not disclose any identifying information about the staff members, including in which of the district’s five schools they worked.

The school year is expected to begin Monday as planned, according to Teppert.

Elementary school students will attend school as normal. Students in the middle and high schools will use a hybrid model, attending school some days and learning from home on others.

Greater Latrobe is the latest of several local school districts with reported cases of covid-19.

An administrator in the Southmoreland School District tested positive and several other administrators are under self-quarantine because they came in contact with the affected employee, the district announced this week.

A Penn-Trafford School District employee tested positive this month.

Two North Hills School District students who participated in hockey tryouts tested positive in early July.