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Officials at the Orthodox Jewish school said that visit to Young Israel of New Rochelle potentially exposed the students to the virus, The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported.
The students — some of whom since gone on a school trip to Canada — began a self-quarantine period earlier this week, Principal Eli Ciner said Thursday.
One of them developed symptoms and was being tested for the virus, he wrote in a letter to the school community.
Young Israel's Rabbi Reuven Fink reportedly tested positive for CO-VID19 after coming into contact with a family attending his shul who contracted the virus, the Jerusalem Post reported.
State health officials on Wednesday asked any New Jerseyans who attended religious events at Young Israel on Feb. 22-23 to self-quarantine until this Sunday.
The request was directed out of "an abundance of caution," state Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said.
State Health Dept: Temple Attendees From NJ Should Self-Quarantine Due To Coronavirus
Worldwide, more than 3,100 deaths from more than 93,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported, mostly in China, as of Friday.
Ten people had been reported dead in the U.S. of 100 or so confirmed cases, the Centers for Disease Control said.
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ALSO SEE: New Jersey's second presumed coronavirus patient works in the same office as a Manhattan lawyer from Westchester who was the second New York State resident hospitalized with the virus, a source with knowledge of the cases said.
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