ARLINGTON, MA — The Arlington Public Schools is among six districts in Middlesex County to close for two weeks due to concerns over the coronavirus. Schools in Bedford, Belmont, Burlington, Lexington and Winchester will close as well.

Closures will start Friday, March 13 and run until at least March 27. District superintendents issued a joint statement Thursday:

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Two Arlington residents, a mother and child, have tested positive for COVID-19, the illness associated with the coronavirus. The mother, a woman in her 40s, attended a Biogen employee conference in Boston last month that has been linked to dozens of presumptive positive cases of the coronavirus.