Staff Report

The Shimon and Sara Birnbaum Jewish Community Center announced that a recent visitor is being tested for COVID-19.

The visitor had played basketball on Sunday and Tuesday. In an email to members, the JCC did not mention if the visitor was a member.

"We are awaiting to learn the test results," JCC Executive Director Laura Friedman and President Geoff Feinstein said in the email. "Although we are not sure if this person has the virus, we are taking all precautions by deep cleaning the building over the next three days. These actions and our decisions were made with the guidance of the New Jersey State Board of Health."

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The cleaning will take place through Monday and the JCC will reopen 5:45 am Tuesday, the email said.

In the meantime, all special events, sports leagues, teams, and children’s enrichment classes, including private and group swim lessons, are postponed for the month of March, the email said.

"We will communicate in the coming weeks when the classes will be made up or rescheduled," the JCC said in the email.

The JCC Blaustein Early Childhood Center and the JCares program for Adults with Special Needs will both be closed on Monday and "hopes" to reopen on Tuesday.

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