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GRORUDDALEN: Vestli School. Photo: Odin Jæger
The Vestli school in Oslo closes after six cases of mutated coronavirus were detected in six of the seven stages. The Stasjonsfjellet school also runs digital teaching after an employee has been infected with corona.
Now there are long test lines in the district.
Vestli School conducts digital home education for the entire next week and no students will be coming to school, Vestli School states on its website.
The primary school, which is grades 1-7, has about 530 students.
– Then it’s sad. We moved to a new school on Monday and everyone was eager to start at the new school, says VG Deputy Principal Randi Sømo.
For 2.5 years, students and teachers have lived in pavilions in the local community while a new school was being built. And so it was put into use on Monday of this week.
– When we started looking at infections in families, there were so many steps that, in consultation with the district superintendent, we thought it best if they did not meet at school to prevent further infection, says Sømo.
The new school closes
Stasjonsfjellet school, also in Stovner district, is closing for physical education after coronavirus was detected at the school. This is what the director of the upper secondary school, Simon Jara, reports to VG.
– We run the digital school from tomorrow for the whole school. An infection has been discovered at school, but we have not found the source of the infection for the employee who has been diagnosed with the infection, says Jara.
No contagion has been detected among students, but now there will be digital teaching until Monday, March 15.
Jara says they found out about the infection at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday and that the health authorities advised them to close the school.
– The infection detection team is working now and I don’t have much more information because we don’t know the spread. The virus has not been sequenced, says Jara.
Stasjonsfjellet school has 300 students and all teachers are now in quarantine.
– They are on the quarantine call waiting until you get a test response, says Jara.
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Request that more prove themselves
In Vestli School, cases of mutated virus have been detected in all stages, with the exception of the third stage. But the school emphasizes that it is very likely that there is also infection at this stage.
– Due to the infection situation, we ask that all 3rd grade students and employees there also be screened and follow the instructions in the letter from the infection control team in the Stovner district, the school says.
The letter from the school states that since there is a suspicion of a mutated virus, it means that all household members of students in the class and employees must also be quarantined until the response to the first test is available. .
LONG TAILS: There have been several hundred cars in the test queues at the Stovner Test Station, according to police. Photo: Odin Jæger, VG
Several hundred cars in a row
The VG photographer at the scene recorded long lines outside the Stovner Test Station Thursday night. The police can confirm this, and they have spent the night driving people away.
– There must be several hundred cars lined up, but now we have just completed the task, says operations manager Vidar Pedersen.
The long queue of cars prevented normal traffic from being obstructed, but it should now flow smoothly, and signs have been posted in the area to prevent a queue from forming again.
VG has not been able to reach the district superintendent in Stovner.
Jara, principal of the Stasjonsfjellet school, says that many of the students are now being tested on Thursday night.
– I have received photos from parents that show that there are long lines at the test stations, says Jara. But according to your information, there will be no queue at the Rommen test station tonight.
– This is the fifteenth time that a virus has been detected in the school and in October-November we had to close the entire school for 14 days, says Jara.
– Wounded by Vestli
School councilor Inga Marte Thorkildsen tells VG that they will see if they can find more solutions locally so that schools don’t have to close.
– I am incredibly hurt by Vestli, they have been through a lot, and that really applies to all Stovner schools. There has been a lot of quarantine and infection, and an unpredictable situation over time, affecting both students and staff, says Thorkildsen.
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