A school in Melbourne's north west has been closed for cleaning after a student tested positive for coronavirus.
On Tuesday, a teacher at the school was confirmed to have contracted the virus, but he had been working from home. Contact tracing is being conducted at the school and any close contacts of the student will be asked to self-isolate.Students from Taylors Lakes and St Albans who attended a VET class with the Keilor Downs student on Tuesday have also been asked to self-isolate. Those schools have not closed.
"If we've seen some cases [at schools] it's usually been introduced by adults … so the risk of transmission from a student to others is there but I wouldn't expect significant numbers. We certainly haven't seen that in the past," he said.Victoria recorded seven new cases of COVID-19 since Thursday, bringing the state total to 1,634 after an earlier case was reclassified.
That’s ok, China will fix.
Your article says the student was from a family that was a virus cluster . So how and why was the student allowed to go to school when they should have been quarantined? As I said before state health departments are incompetent Especially VIC & nsw
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