Nashua-Plainfield football season will kick off Friday

Nashua-Plainfeild’s football team will kick off its 2020 season Friday, after all.
A day after the school notified parents, staff, students and community members that there had been a positive COVID-19 case within the football program, Superintendent Keith Turner clarified the situation in another letter.
He wrote that the individual who tested positive seas not a student-athlete at Nashua-Plainfield, but that the individual had been at the football scrimmage held last Friday. When the individual’s test results came back positive Tuesday evening, the administration was notified and made the decision to immediately shut down practice.
But Turner said that the guidance provided by the Iowa Department of Public Health Wednesday “is that since the individual’s first symptoms appeared on Monday, all individuals who came in close contact in the previous 48 hours need to be quarantined. That does not include the football team.”
That means Nashua-Plainfield will open it’s football season Friday with a game against Central Springs at Nora Springs.
Turner, though, also did ask staff and students to remain cautious when it comes to COVID-19.
“Even though our student-athletes do not need to further quarantine,” Turner wrote, “I want to remind our staff and students that anytime you experience symptoms of COVID-19, you should contact your physician immediately.”
— For more on this story, refer back to nhtrib.com and see the Sept. 1 Tribune and the Sept. 3 Reporter