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– In the first instance, we have dismissed the students as the student who has been diagnosed with an infection, says Øyvind Opdal, deputy principal of Bryne Senior High School.
This is done to get an overview of the situation. The goal is for as many dismissed students as possible to return to school as soon as possible when the school has a better overview of close contacts.
A student in the VG2 study specialization has been diagnosed with coronary artery disease. Therefore, the school has chosen to dismiss all students who are in the second year of this field of study.
Additionally, some other students will also be asked to stay home. The same applies to the teachers that the infected student has had.
Øyvind Opdal, is the assistant principal at Bryne Senior High School
Photo: Anders Haulanad / NRK
– We are now cooperating with infection control in the student’s home municipality and here at Time, says Oppdal.
Meeting with the municipal supervisor
On Tuesday morning there was a meeting between the school and the municipal chief of Time. The student with a proven infection has been at school Thursday and Friday without symptoms.
– We have talked about what we can do at school to prevent the spread. We will come out with more information continually.
The school is now removing chairs in the dining room so that there is a better distance between students. Hand washing procedures are stricter and classes have breaks to disperse students.
The school has received messages from students reporting that they feel unsafe and wonder what to do.
– We answer that students with symptoms should be evaluated. If they don’t have symptoms, they should come to school.
Residing in Stavanger
The municipal chief doctor Øystein Fjetland Øgaard in Time has started the detection of infections.
Photo: Anders Haualand / NRK
– We work with the monitoring of infections and with whom the student has been in contact, says municipal chief doctor Øystein Fjetland Øgaard in Time.
The goal is to get an overview of actual close contacts and to quarantine them and allow the rest of the students to return to school as soon as possible.
The infected student is fine and it is unclear where she got the infection.
– We will probably not receive an answer to this until a few days later, says the municipal chief.
The student developed symptoms on Saturday. It is considered possible to infect another 48 hours before symptoms appear, so the infection can spread on Thursday and Friday of the previous week.
Fjetland Øgaard asks all Bryne Senior High School students with respiratory symptoms to get screened.
– Those who do not have symptoms but who have been close to the infected person should wait. They will be contacted eventually. This also applies to the class that has been fired.
The student who has been diagnosed with an infection lives in Stavanger and rides the train to school. The infection team in Stavanger is also in the process of tracking infections.
Bryne High School is one of the largest in the country, with about 1,600 students and 350 employees.
