Schools with Covid 19 cases in UK

[guilttripjourno]

Just saw this tweet.

Numbers climbing especially for England

100 UK Schools with Coronavirus infections in its population

• Wales 1
• England 11
• N. Ireland 15
• Scotland 73

twitter.com/ToryFibs/status/1301599811863539713?s=20

@Mittens030869

So yes, I'm worried myself, but as a parent I'm prepared to take the risk. Plus I only have to worry about catching COVID from my 2 DDs; teachers have 30 children to potentially catch it from.

That would be hilarious if it wasn't also scary. I teach 30x 19 classes over a two week period.

That's 570 and could be more with cover, corridor contact etc.
Not to mention the staff contacts.

Have empathy with your situation. I think it has been protected as schools are safe with all the SD photos, school classrooms with students sitting at a distance. Quite different from the reality which some parents are realising now based on the number of MN threads.

Well I realised that there would be no social distancing in schools as our headmistress made that clear in all the communications sent before reopening. It was obvious the BBC pictures were bullshit.

Yes, I can understand why that would be scary. And teenagers transmit like adults according to the research. I don't know the answer, but pretending there's no risk (or only very low risk) isn't the answer.

Yes this below is about Covid French schools but possibly replace the word France and instead with any of the UK nations as I think this will also surely be expected here too soon! Possibly the French are more Covid smart than us Brits and tend to take Civid risk mitigation management more seriously. They have overall (despite second wave) better Covid outcomes anyway compared to UK. When our next wave hits soon we will see more fatalities adding to our current European record. Good luck and stay as Covid safe as you can!

news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-france-closes-22-schools-due-to-covid-19-as-country-records-europes-highest-daily-infection-rate-12063287

Coronavirus: France closes 22 schools due to COVID-19 as country records Europe's highest daily infection rate

Twelve million pupils have returned to classrooms but some parents and teachers' unions have expressed concern over the reopening.

Friday 4 September 2020 11:06, UK

The same happened in Israel, South Korea, Germany and US. I don't know how can the schools here be immune.

So OP with your scaremongering "facts" you are telling us that out of 33,000 schools in the uk that 0.3% of them have a covid case? That's not even mentioning if the people who have tested positive are student, teacher, ta's, cleaners, dinner ladies, after school club staff, breakfast staff, care takers or admin staff!!

Get ovet it, my daughter had a huge grin on her face going off to school today and I'm thrilled for her :)

@guilttripjourno

The same happened in Israel, South Korea, Germany and US. I don't know how can the schools here be immune.

Obviously Covid does not only impact schools as it is any indoor setting with mass gathering of different households (old or young) in a prolonged and daily occurrence. Hence it's workplaces including offices, factories and even outdoor agricultural harvesting etc. This is a good reason why central London is still a ghost town this week, same as for Manhattan New York and many global cities etc. Nobody wants to use shared (otherwise packed) mass transit indoor enclosed transportation unless necessary. TfL have now reduced the single deck buses to 14 passengers and large double deck Boris buses to 30! How can people walk or cycle if they are not local to schools, workplaces etc without playing invisible asymptomatic Covid tag on the bus or train commute?

@frumpety
If the rumour mill is correct it's 5 children between the 2 high schools and they are all related to each other.

The schools have been back since 11th of August so for about 4 weeks

If the 5 affected children are all related to each other probably a community contact.

The schools have been back in Scotland for some time now and the rates appear really low, which is great. There does appear to be traceable community infections on the rise though. This would follow the view that children don't transmit as much.

I feel like some people are reading different figures to me. Those numbers sound reassuringly low! They were never going to be zero

You'd hardly expect the figures in England to be high, the schools have been back a couple of days!

docs.google.com/document/d/1fB5pysccOHvxphpTmCG_TGdytavMmc1cUumn8m0pwzo/mobilebasic

Saw this on twitter today. School closures are inevitable with current arrangements in place.

@SubordinateThatClause

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fB5pysccOHvxphpTmCG_TGdytavMmc1cUumn8m0pwzo/mobilebasic

Saw this on twitter today. School closures are inevitable with current arrangements in place.

I work in an environment observing 2m with masks and rules on room occupancy/empty periods.

Very hard to get my head round what is happening in schools.

The list of things to avoid basically describes 'a school'!

This made me chuckle

Given how long schools have been back in Scotland that rate is really low?! God people are determined to scaremonger/find stuff to be anxious about

It looks only a very small % of schools infected, which fits with what other European countries are seeing

• basically schools are affected by the community level of infection, but reflect this, rather than driving it.

Different countries have some different measures:
e.g. Masks in class for France, masks just in corridors for most of Germany plus shielded staff WFH

If the situation worsens significantly in the UK, then I expect schools will be allowed to insist on masks in classrooms too.

Until then, staff and students should at least be allowed to wear masks if they wish
imo, previously shielded staff and students should be allowed to stay home if they wish

Three weeks for most schools, other week was inset/staggered starts in most schools.

[quote Cabinfever10]@frumpety
If the rumour mill is correct it's 5 children between the 2 high schools and they are all related to each other.

The schools have been back since 11th of August so for about 4 weeks[/quote]
Has this been confirmed by anyone official yet? Because if it is true, officials will want it to be known, as they will want to remove fear of school transmission. If it is not confirmed, I would be cautious of believing rumours.

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland

Given how long schools have been back in Scotland that rate is really low?! God people are determined to scaremonger/find stuff to be anxious about

Lmao at 'find things to be anxious of' - as if the governments of every country a Ross the globe don't have 'covid' as the top item of every meeting!

Happy for you and your daughter. If only I got an option of remote learning, will be happy as well. Everyone wins.

Believe in Boris and co and we will be fine!!

In May we were told by Dominic Cummings that every parent can take reasonable measures to protect their kids. That has gone for a toss now.

We have had cases of teachers spreading it to students...Our schools were suppose to open August 12 but they had orientation meetings. All of them socially distanced. 37 teachers tested positive and then 96 students tested positive after exposure from the orientation meetings.Class hadn't even started yet.

Sorry you are scaremongering . We here do not believe in facts!!