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800 students and around 100 teachers were sent home after an outbreak at the Glommasvingen school, where two students were diagnosed with Covid-19.
The route of infection is unknown and there are many close contacts. So the municipality is taking no chances and is now sending the school’s around 800 students and just over 100 employees home and quarantining them.
– Parents and guardians who must pick up students from school are requested to do so as soon as possible. All students must be picked up, writes the municipality on its website.
It is important to react quickly
Municipal Chief Medical Officer Arne Skogholt says it is important to react quickly to prevent a major outbreak.
– What we are doing now is in line with the guidelines for a rapid response, says Skogholt.
He says they are reacting by assuming those infected are infected with the British mutation.
Therefore, he believes that it is also correct to quarantine everyone in the school, even if it is only two cases of infection.
– If we wait too long, we’ll be left behind. You can never be too fast, says Skogholt.
School classes are tested
Everyone at the school has been quarantined on hold and close contacts are now being tested.
– In the first instance, it is about testing two school coffers, according to the municipal superior.
So far there have been few cases of infection in the municipality. This is the first outbreak in several weeks. A total of three people have been diagnosed with the infection and they all belong to the same household. Two are students at the school.
The school is the only primary and secondary school in Sør-Odal. This means that all the children in the municipality go to school in Glommasvingen.
Now everyone, both the rivers and the employees, are in quarantine until Monday, March 22, inclusive.
