A number of toddlers will have to go into quarantine as part of the contacting tracing procedures in relation to the 4-year-old who recently tested positive for COVID-19.
Chief Medical Officer, Dr Rhonda Sealey-Thomas said the Ministry of Health discussed the matter with the Ministry of the Education and the school that the child attends.
She told state media it was decided that “the children who would be in that school will be quarantined.”
However, the CMO said she was satisfied that the relevant measures were taken at the school to minimize the spread of the virus among the children.
“Because of the protocols we would have worked on with the Ministry of Education, we’re pretty sure, we’re pretty convinced that the social distancing would have taken place as much as would have been possible and the cohorting of students”, she said.
Cohorting refers to the strategy of forming groups of students, and sometimes teachers or staff, that stay together throughout the school day to minimize exposure for students, teachers, and staff across the school environment.
Ideally, students and staff within a cohort would only have physical proximity with others in the same cohort.
The US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this practice may help prevent the spread the virus that causes COVID-19, by decreasing opportunities for exposure, facilitating more efficient contact tracing in the event of a positive case, and allowing for targeted testing, quarantine, and isolation of a single cohort instead of school-wide measures in the event of a positive case or cluster of cases.
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Why the fk these ppl so shady in giving out information.. The more secretive they are about this virus, the more it is going to spread.. It’s a good thing that it’s not automatic death, or else we would have more than 1000 ppl dying from this..
The real pandemic is the media scaring people and the govt engaging in Draconian rule.
One by one, we all catching it. Survival of the fittest.
I am a teacher and I would not trust the established ‘protocols’ as the base of ensuring that there was no co-mingling in the school. Was the school actively ensuring that social distancing was taking place? Many of our government schools are not following the established protocols, and if only one student was infected the entire school population would have to remain at home. Our attempts to create a perception of ‘we go this covered’ can end up causing more harm than good.
And that’s the problem right there……many of the schools are not following the established protocols. This is where we are failing ourselves. We all have to take it upon ourselves to protect ourselves and be our brother’s keeper.
Enough with the secrets !!!
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