Tamaqua Area School District announced Wednesday that there are three new positive cases of COVID-19 in the school district.

Two are from West Penn Elementary School (one student and one staff). The other is a student at Tamaqua Area Middle School.

The individuals have been assigned to isolation.

The school district has utilized protocols from the Department of Health, collected data, and analyzed factors of transmission. It was determined that 15 additional people will need to quarantine.

Superintendent Raymond Kinder advised people to follow safety protocols: not attending group functions, interacting without face coverings, nor engaging in large gatherings.

“The spread of this virus is dependent upon people to interact and have unnecessary contact. It is up to us to eliminate that possibility,” Kinder said.