A report received this afternoon says that one of the schools that dared resume on Thursday had to quarantine students within hours at it received a covid19 visit.
Greenfield Central High School in Indiana, United States was one of the first schools to reopen its doors during the #COVID19 pandemic.
It did not even make it through the day before the disease crept in through a student who took seriously it. The question has been asked times over regarding what happens when someone comes to school infected.
New York times reports, Saturday, 1st August that only a few hours into the day, the school received a call from the county health department. The health authorities informed the school that a student who was in school earlier, been very active, gone from classroom to classroom and played with friends, had taken very ill with the virus.
The school administrators immediately swang into emergency mode, contact tracing and ordering everyone who had come in contact the student to self quarantine for 14 days. It is still unclear if anyone else was infected.
Saying the school administrators were not shocked to receive the covid19 visit, Harold E Olih, Greenfield School Superintendent said “we knew it was a when, not an if.” He added that they “were very shocked it was on day 1.”
Hundreds of other districts across the US with plans of reopening even on a part-time basis have reversed plans following spike in infections across many states.
NYT reports that out of the country’s 25 largest districts, 19 have indicated that they will teach remotely. However, schools in Florida and Texas hope to resume in-person classroom teaching after a few weeks if the infection rate abates.
Teachers’s unions have strongly objected to the plans.
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