The number of students quarantined by the Visalia Unified School District has risen from 54 to 66 in a day.

This comes after the district quarantined 12 students on Wednesday at Riverway Elementary School, according to communications coordinator Kim Batty.

“We had 12 students placed on quarantine as a precaution after receiving a report of a positive case within the classroom,” she explained.

Riverway is the fifth VUSD school in which a classroom was quarantined. The district has more than 20 elementary schools overall, but only students up to second grade have returned for in-person learning.

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