Five schools in Leicester have been forced to temporarily close down this week after ‘no more’ than ten staff and a ‘couple’ of students tested positive for coronavirus.
Education bosses at Leicester City Council said Moat Community College, Herrick Primary and Whitehall Primary are closed for deep cleaning.
This comes after Humberstone Infant and Junior Academies shut ‘for the foreseeable future’ earlier this month and parents were told to self-isolate for 14 days, LeicestershireLive reported.
Director of education and social care Martin Samuels said: “The number of positive cases in schools remains very, very low. In total, we are about at the fingers of two hands for cases.
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“It’s no more than 10 staff and there have been a couple of pupils who have tested positive across all of the schools. There is no evidence that we have seen of transmission within schools and no suggestion that by being at school people are picking it up. We are spotting it in schools and dealing with it.”
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Samuels added that the schools are being ‘cautious’ and have gone ‘beyond the public health advice’ in completely closing.
He said, “‘The schools are taking advice from the council’s director of public health, Ivan Browne, and his team, and we are being quite cautious. The schools that are shut have actually gone further than the advice given to them. They didn’t need to close the whole school.
“There has been one case where a school could have just sent that bubble home, but they took the view they wanted to be on the safe side and would send everyone home and do a deep clean of the school.
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‘Another school where several staff tested positive got the whole school to self-isolate for 14 days. That’s beyond the public health advice.
‘We are being careful and cautious and it really is safe to send your child to school.’
The council said Humberstone Infant and Junior Academies were reopening on Wednesday, while Whitehall Primary would open its doors again on Thursday.
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