The city and Salvation Army beginning Thursday will open four locations to distribute grab-and-go meals to students as schools remain closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pittsburgh Public Schools will provide 100 lunches to be handed out at each of the four sites from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on weekdays.

The four sites are:

• Paulson Rec Center - 1201 Paulson Ave. 
• Warrington Rec Center - 329 E. Warrington Ave. 
• Salvation Army Homewood location- 8020 Frankstown Ave. 
• Salvation Army Westside location - 1821 Broadhead Fording Road.

PPS spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said the new meal pickup locations were put in place to fill gaps after some schools had to close as distribution sites. For example, the Warrington Rec Center was opened because Pittsburgh Brashear High School and Pittsburgh South Hills 6-8 had to be closed.

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Those schools were just a couple of buildings that the district closed Wednesday because of possible exposure to COVID-19.

The district said it would stop distributing meals at Brashear and South Hills because a staff member came into indirect contact with a person who had a confirmed positive case of COVID-19.

The district is also closing Pittsburgh Langley to the meals program after a report that a staff member was exposed to a presumptive positive case of COVID-19. The school will be deep cleaned.

Langley’s meal service will be relocated to Emanuel United Methodist Church at 825 Lorenz Ave.

Earlier Wednesday, PPS had to close 10 other buildings after it discovered that two employees who traveled between two administration buildings and eight schools were exposed to the novel coronavirus at a nonwork event.

The district’s central administration building in Oakland and the Greenway Professional Development Center in the West End were closed for deep cleaning.

The eight schools that had to be shut down to meal distribution were:

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• Pittsburgh Arsenal K-5
• Pittsburgh Arsenal 6-8
• Pittsburgh Classical Academy
• Pittsburgh Carmalt PreK-8
• Pittsburgh Fulton
• Pittsburgh Grandview PreK-5
• Pittsburgh Linden
• Pittsburgh Schiller

These eight buildings will also be deep cleaned using its electrostatic machine, according to the district.

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PPS said it would announce further plans for regional meal pickup sites on Thursday.

First Published: March 18, 2020, 8:22 a.m.