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Students from three classes of the German School, in Lisbon, have been in preventive quarantine since Monday after two positive cases were detected at the school, the newspaper Público reported. Near 70 students are like this at home and began this Monday classes in a distance education regime.
This is because the first case is of worker of a concession company which was identified because the school screened all employees before classes started. This worker had no contact with the students, so the four employees of that company and a school worker who had contact with him were in preventive quarantine.
However, on Saturday a second case was detected: it is a student who will have been infected during vacation, “In a social contact outside the school”, said to Public those responsible for the school. According to the school, this student only went to school on the first day of class and only attended the first class with the class principal. Still, the health delegate decided that the approximately 70 students who may have had contact with the infected student should stay home and be accompanied by the NHS.
“This decision from the health delegate was transmitted to us on Saturday, about two hours after we learned of the infection, and was communicated to the parents of this group that same day. These students started classes remotely. today [segunda-feira] in the morning at 8 am, as scheduled in their regular hours, ”officials said.
