With the beginning of the new school year, the first case of Covid-19 for a student of Riga East Secondary School was detected. Along with the first patient, the whole class has also been quarantined at home – 14 more classmates and now four teachers who, in the opinion of epidemiologists, have been infected at the school of the nearest contact person.
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The school says that the student’s mother reported the illness.
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“The first case was that [konstatēja] the mother of the child, then immediately the mother took her child to the test, and on Saturday it was revealed that the child also has this infection, and then the Center for Disease Prevention and Control called and reported to the school that the child has this infection. They have been quarantined at home for two weeks, “said Ilze Sondore-Drukaļska, Deputy Director of Riga East Secondary School.
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In total, the school has about 500 students. But there is no reason to worry.
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“For us, training is provided in streams and there are different entrances for different class groups, and training takes place in the same room. Teachers travel, so they are also the only contacts for teachers,” said the deputy principal of the high school.
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In turn, the class in which the infected student studied has been disinfected and will not be used for two weeks.
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The SPKC welcomes the security measures introduced at the school and this is why the school can continue to work. A total of 19 people have been quarantined, all of whom are being monitored by family doctors, but the route of infection of the particular student is still being studied.
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“We are currently working on the sources of the infection, there are versions of the work, but we can say that they are not related to school and are not related to traveling outside Latvia. Here it must be said that the patient had symptoms and to an educational institution, “said Ilze Arāja, a representative of the SPKC.
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Covid-19 tests are planned for those quarantined students and educators who will have health complaints in the next two weeks.
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