PETALING JAYA: Schools should only fully close if the number of Covid-19 cases within the school fraternity starts climbing.
National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP) secretary-general Harry Tan said: “This is to ensure education can go on uninterrupted for the other students, providing that those who tested positive are quickly isolated and quarantined.”
“If only one person is found to be positive, then that person will already be told to quarantine while, I believe, the Health Ministry conducts contact tracing, ” he said.
He added that the authorities had been consistent in determining the need to temporarily close affected schools or classes or quarantine the affected individuals.
KUALA LUMPUR, April 13 SJK (C) Puay Chai 2 will be shutting temporarily, in stages starting today, following a Covid-19 outbreak at the school. This comes as a relief for students’ parents, the.
PETALING JAYA: Six pupils recently tested positive for Covid-19 at a primary school in Bandar Utama near here but the authorities have not yet moved to temporarily shut it down.
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