Anyone else with a Covid case in their school?

[dementedpixie]

Have just been messaged today to say there is a case in my dc's school and that Test and Protect are contact tracing and the school is remaining open. No idea what year group the person is in but they seem to think there is no spread in the school.

Its a scary thought but not altogether surprising when there are 900odd kids mingling together all day.

Anyone else had this in their dc's school?

Primary for me

The schools will send them home if they have obvious Covid signs. We’ve been told we have a very short window of time to collect them after a phone call.
Sorry but I can't help wondering what happens if you miss the "short window of time" - it sounds like they will be disposed of if you don't get them!

A case was reported in my DD’s school last week and all contacts now isolating. Haven’t heard anymore although concerned to hear from DD1 today that about half her class have developed coughs but are still coming into school I’ve been quite resigned to the fact that it will spread in schools but not impressed if kids are showing symptoms and a) parents aren’t keeping them home and b) the school aren’t sending them home.

@Hangingbasketofdoom

The schools will send them home if they have obvious Covid signs. We’ve been told we have a very short window of time to collect them after a phone call. Sorry but I can't help wondering what happens if you miss the "short window of time" - it sounds like they will be disposed of if you don't get them!

YY, they put them in a black bin bag and make them stand outside in the bike shelters

haven't heard of any new cases at the kids high school but there have been 2 cases at the local primary school so 2 classes and 4 teachers have had to isolate

Message from our secondary school today saying all the in school contacts (friends or sit next to or near in class) of the 1 positive case have now had tests and all results are negative. They will continue to isolate until their 14 days is up.

That’s good news @WeAllHaveWings

We are in North Lanarkshire. DS sent home for 14 days to self isolate on Thursday, along with about 20 others. Positive case in his high school. He has no symptoms and no need for a test. He is in S5. How many times can this happen and not affect his exams? What plans does John Swinney and the SQA have???

What school is that? I'm also north lanarkshire. Think our S4 had a case so they had kids sent home. My 2 are S3 and S6 so not affected

He has no symptoms and no need for a test.

When we had a case in our school, all the kids in close contact were asked to go for a test to determine if it was spreading in or originated at school.

But they could all develop symptoms after the test if they were in the incubation period

In Scotland we are told that we cannot get a test unless we have symptoms.

@Mylifeisboring

In Scotland we are told that we cannot get a test unless we have symptoms.

that's not been true here (west coast).

every kid that was traced in relation to 2 cases in school (about 40 or 50 out of 1200+ kids) was told to get a test regardless of symptoms.

what a waste of tests. Is that why nobody can get one?

did many come back positive? Or were they part of the 30,000 tests done where only about 100 came back positive?

@dementedpixie

But they could all develop symptoms after the test if they were in the incubation period

Agree, they still had to isolate for 14 days even when tests came back negative. The tests, I assume, were to see if there are any positives now which might result in widening the scope of those in isolation

I wish that applied in Lanarkshire health board. We were told not to get a test unless symptomatic. And if we got a test and it was negative he still could not go back to school for 14 days .

But they do still have to isolate for 14 days if they get a negative test in the isolation period. Was maybe seeing if there were asymptomatic cases alongside symptomatic

@dementedpixie

what a waste of tests. Is that why nobody can get one?

It is not a waste if it highlights there is more than one case in a school or if it is spreading in schools. This is information they should be gathering to help with decision making.

I'm guessing that they are monitoring if Covid19 spreads in schools and to do that an extra 50 tests are probably worth it.

The daily capacity is in the thousands so the bottleneck is unlikely due to the few extra cases that are referred from public health.

@Mylifeisboring

I wish that applied in Lanarkshire health board. We were told not to get a test unless symptomatic. And if we got a test and it was negative he still could not go back to school for 14 days .

Surprised it isn't consistent, implies the decision is at a school or Council level.

@Mylifeisboring do you mean a child with symptoms tested negative but had to stay off for 14 days or do you mean a child isolating due to contact but with no symptoms had a test? In the 2nd case they still have to isolate for 14 days. In the first case the school is wrong

The 2nd case.

There are different criteria depending on if you are contact traced. Contact traced persons will be referred for a test via a different route as they have been in proximity to someone who has tested positive.

So if a DC was contact traced through school alongside possibly hundreds of others in a secondary they are referred via that route not a self referral and likely to get a test sooner and closer and without having to display symptoms.

I learned this last night from my medic pal over cocktails. I think we need to work on the standard of our chat

Mylifeisboring - I have a DC in S5, and that's my concern too - that they might be asked to self isolate a number of times this year, thus missing lots of vital classes. Ok, the work might be on Teams, but that's not the same. Scottish government have to address this issue.