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Parent Of West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School Student Tested For Coronavirus

West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School on Thursday afternoon.
Amber Cripps / WBAA
West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School on Thursday afternoon.

The parent of a West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School student is being tested for the coronavirus, according to an e-mail sent by West Lafayette School Superintendent Rocky Killion Thursday.

Killion says the student in question is not currently in school, not experiencing any symptoms, and won’t return to school until they receive confirmation that no other family members have been diagnosed with the virus. He also said the school was undergoing a thorough cleaning as a precautionary measure.

While more details on the case aren’t known, Killion says the parent in question was complying with guidance provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Tippecanoe County Health Department issued a public health alert yesterday about the coronavirus, but said there were no known cases of infection in the county.

Emilie Syberg was an an assistant editor and policy reporter at WFYI. She joined the newsroom after working at WBAA in West Lafayette as a reporter, editor, and Morning Edition host. Emilie was a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia in the rural education development program from 2014 to 2016, and earned her master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University in 2017. Way back when, she earned her undergraduate degree in theater from the University of Evansville, and grew up on the south side of Indianapolis.
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