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SINGAPORE — Forty-seven students and 12 staff members from St Anthony’s Canossian Secondary School who had been in close contact with an infected Sec 4 student have been put on leave of absence or are under quarantine.
The 15-year-old student was one of the five community cases out of the 347 new infections reported by the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Saturday (June 13). She had tested positive on Friday.
Her form teacher had on Wednesday noticed she was unwell during a screening exercise, director of schools at the Ministry of Education (MOE) Liew Wei Li said on Sunday.
The student was immediately isolated and sent home, and has not returned to school since, said Ms Liew. “She was later tested positive for Covid-19,” she added.
“As announced by MOH, the student also tested positive in her serology test, which indicates that this was a past infection,” she said.
“This also suggests that she was likely to have been infected during the circuit breaker period, and not after school re-opening.”
The 47 students who have been in close contact have all tested negative for the virus. As for the 12 staff members, TODAY understands that those who are under quarantine were tested today and their results are pending. The rest of the staff are under leave of absence and will not be tested.
The students and teachers are currently well, Ms Liew said, adding that the school premises have also been thoroughly cleaned and disinfected.
“In-school lessons for Secondary 1, 2, 4 and 5 students will continue as per normal tomorrow, based on the weekly rotation schedule previously announced.”
On June 7, the authorities announced that four students and one non-teaching staff across five schools had tested positive for Covid-19, amid stepped-up testing.
Since June 2, surveillance testing for Covid-19 had been extended for all school staff and students above the age of 12 who are diagnosed with acute respiratory infection at first presentation to a doctor, instead of only for those with prolonged symptoms.
https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...anthonys-canossian-sec-under-quarantine-leave
