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BIG INFECTION OUTBREAK: Apalløkka School in Oslo. Photo: TORE KRISTIANSEN, VG
More than 50 people have been diagnosed with corona at the Apalløkka school in the Grorud district on the eastern edge of Oslo.
More than 50 people have been diagnosed with corona infection at Apalløkka in Oslo, the school writes on its website.
There is home registration for all stages until December 4.
The district superintendent has quarantined 14 of 15 classes at various times during this period, with those in quarantine taking a corona test. It is common to have symptoms 5 to 7 days after close contact, but this can vary. Today we have also received some new confirmed cases. Another test may be helpful. Many have done all of this and will do it. Several of our employees have received a positive test result after test # 2, when the first test was taken prematurely, it says on the website.
– We are very affected. These are sturdy ceilings, director Elisabeth Dullum tells VG.
Take the opportunity to show off the staff and students.
– Now we have home school. All hours go by normally. There is a fantastic group of employees and good students who fit in well, he says.
He does not know how the infection got to the school.
– Have you followed the infection control rules?
– Definitely. We have increased the cleaning, spray and use antibac inside and out. We do not know how the infection occurred. We have not had joint meetings. There has probably been an asymptomatic infection.
Now an environmental team is calling on students to take care of their mental health.
Difficult: Principal Elisabeth Dullum of Apalløkka school. The photo is from a previous occasion. Photo: Tore Kristiansen
The district also does not know how the infection got to the school.
– It is difficult to say, but what we can say is that there is a high pressure of contagion in the Grorud district and in Oslo in general, which also affects schools. The infection team is continually working with infection tracking, Bydel Grorud’s communications manager Gry Sjødin Neander tells VG.
– Is there anything that indicates infection among students?
– Yes, we have reason to believe that there has been an infection among students and school staff.
Now almost all classes are in quarantine and these students are being screened for more infections. The test has also been offered to classes where there has been no infection.
– Spread so fast
VG has spoken with a mother who has a son at school. She says the boy was quarantined on Sunday, November 15, and should stay home the next week.
The child tested negative, but will be tested again.
– It’s absolutely scary, says the bud at school.
She emphasizes that infection control rules were followed. The school is located in the Grorud district in Oslo, one of the districts with the highest infection pressure.
– People have taken precautions. But it spread so fast, he emphasizes.
Prime Minister Erna Solberg visited Apalløkka school when the schools reopened on May 11.
