Just one week after an initial employee tested positive for COVID-19, additional staff members for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools system have now also tested positive for the coronavirus.

Assistant Superintendent Patrick Abele sent an email message to the CHCCS community on Monday night with the news, according to a CBS 17 report. The message did not reveal how many more staff have tested positive, but it does confirm they are members of the system’s food distribution initiative. No members of the food preparation staff have tested positive, wrote Abele.

The news will lead to further changes in how CHCCS delivers meals to students who qualify for federal meals. Abele said the system will move away from using buses and bus drivers to deliver food to neighborhoods, instead relying on a team of volunteers who will pick up meals and take them directly to sites where they’ve been stationed.

These changes are the latest made after a CHCCS employee tested positive last week, with the school system sharing the news with the community on April 14. Abele wrote at the time the system would be dividing its essential staff into groups and having one of each group report to work in an effort to physically distance.

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