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Due to a confusing infection situation, the municipality has decided to close the secondary school and all primary schools in Askim as of Friday. This is what the municipal chief doctor Jan Børre Johansen tells Dagbladet.
– We have received 14 new positive tests today, where the majority – ten cases, are affiliated with Askim ungdomsskole. So we’ve decided to test all steps 8 and 10, he says.
Now warn other young men
Many close contacts
All upper secondary school students, more than 600 people, must be quarantined for ten days. The same applies to employees. The municipality also encourages all household members of students who are now being tested to be quarantined until the student’s test results are available.
– In detecting infections, we also learned that some close contacts belong to the other primary schools in Askim. And that is the background of the measures that we will implement from tomorrow, he says.
Therefore, all primary schools will be closed on Friday due to the infection situation in Askim ungdomsskole.
– We do this to ensure control. At this time we do not have a complete picture of the situation in upper secondary school, says the municipal chief.
– It will be hard six months
– Disturbing
Communications director Mimi Slevigen in Indre Østfold municipality tells Dagbladet that they are taking the situation seriously.
– We have had a massive test of students in the ninth grade and we see that there are ten new cases. It is worrying that there is so much infection among the students and this is a very unfortunate situation.
Therefore, the upper secondary school will be closed until further notice. However, according to Slevigen, the hope is to reopen elementary schools next Monday.
– We have done it as a preventive measure. There is no contagion in primary schools, but there are many with children who attend secondary school and one of the primary schools, so it is simply done to prevent, and to make a plan of how we solve the daily school life of the students , He says. .
In a press release, the municipality states that Spydeberg ungdomsskole is also affected. The students and staff in question have been notified and quarantined.
A pupil at Båstad primary school also has corona symptoms and the affected class is quarantined until the test result is ready.
