Schools question

[Hippywannabe]

When you have a test administered at a test centre, they wear full ppe and you just expose your head through your car window. When you self administer a test at a centre, you have to seal yourself in your car and they wear masks and stand back.
How is that level of safety for staff and pupils going to work in schools?

People in test centres are symptomatic, so the risk of passing the virus on is higher than mass testing people who are not symptomatic.

Those who are symptomatic should not use the mass testing sites, this has been the rule since they rolled them out

Ah, if only everyone did as they should do. 😀

This is a v real concern-not so much with the mass testing of asymptomatic pupils/teachers but with the plan for schools to test pupils who are close contacts of positive covid cases daily in an attempt to keep school attendance figures higher.

Previously, close contacts would be sent home and isolated completely for ten days. Now, they’ll be in schools-in classrooms next to teachers and pupils all day, every day. It’s not just those overseeing the testing that should be worried.

I think cases will spread like wildfire, whether those supervising the testing are wearing PPE (which they should be) or not.