2 (out of 4) rooms at toddlers nursery tested positive

[Thegirlhasnoname]

PHE have told nursery that due to the measures they have in place the rest of the rooms don’t need to self-isolate for 14 days and nursery is super stringent on hygiene. They won’t say (which really irritates me) if the 2 separate people who have tested positive are staff or children though which would go a long way to putting mine, and I’m guessing other parents, minds at ease

The only rooms that are currently open are Babies (up to 15 months) and Tweenies (15 month - 2 years). DD is in Tweenies

I know there is nothing I can do about it as work won’t let me or DH adjust hours to make it so we don’t have to use nursery until the room she is in has a positive test.

However, what would you say the likelihood is that it will happen?

For context: preschool closed last Wednesday afternoon and Toddlers this lunchtime. It could be siblings that have tested positive for all I know but staff members don’t cross into other rooms aside from the one they have been allocated...

As you say could siblings.
Siblings might also determine if your room becomes affected too.
In DD old nursery all parents would have gone in the entrance still and through the corridor bit.
As it's airbourne i guess anywhere in the building could be affected but most where they were breathing.
The MK nursery had 23 positive staff/kids/parents etc

Surely it can’t be siblings because pre-school shut last Wed and that would have meant siblings would have had to isolate for 14days.
I think PHE should say whether it is a child or adult.

@CKBJ

Surely it can’t be siblings because pre-school shut last Wed and that would have meant siblings would have had to isolate for 14days. I think PHE should say whether it is a child or adult.

I thought that too but the “non direct contact” parents have just been told in the event of a positive test in the room then it is just the child who is in that bubble who needs to isolate for 14 days. Siblings can come and go/ parents can go to work etc unless the child that is in the closed room gets symptoms - bit of a silly stance for PHE to take I think!

Parents aren’t allowed in the building to drop off now and the kids are out in the separate gardens (for each bubble) in all weathers with times spent indoors kept to a minimum due to a higher risk of contagion than it would be outdoors

I thought that too but the “non direct contact” parents have just been told in the event of a positive test in the room then it is just the child who is in that bubble who needs to isolate for 14 days. Siblings can come and go/ parents can go to work etc unless the child that is in the closed room gets symptoms - bit of a silly stance for PHE to take I think!

That wouldn't apply to a sibling from a household where someone tests positive. It won't be siblings.

Oh I thought children under 11 didn't spread Covid 🤔

Can’t be siblings as the sibling would have had to isolate for 14 days once the other child tested positive. I think you are confusing this with a different scenario, where a siblings bubble is closed due to another child in the bubble testing positive. In this scenario, the bubble would close and all children isolate. If there is a sibling in another bubble connected to the bubble that tested positive , they would only have to isolating they had direct contact eg if they were the sibling of the child that tests positive. Hope that makes sense.

If it makes you feel any better, my children’s school had two positive children last term. No one else caught it as far as we are aware.