Covid-19 coronavirus: Papatoetoe High re-opens with heartfelt message
8 Mar, 2021 01:30 AM
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Papatoetoe High School students have been kept away from school since the February outbreak. Photo / Michael Craig
Papatoetoe High School students have been kept away from school since the February outbreak. Photo / Michael Craig
The head boy of Papatoetoe High School has put out a heartfelt message as schools re-open across Auckland under alert level 2. There s been enough negativity, enough hardship, enough pain and hurt from Covid. and the rest of the craziness going on in lockdown, Flo Akauola said in a Facebook video posted on Monday morning.
That is the kind of targeting the Papatoetoe community is having to confront, with Covid-19 cases centred around Papatoetoe High School and a seven-day lockdown triggered by a positive case who was in the community while infectious. The area was dealt another blow when a man was shot dead by police on Thursday night.
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Dr Primla Khar is cautious about racism being directed at community cases. The video also points to the kind of ugliness that could rear its head if the ethnicity of the infected families was revealed, Khar says. Khar works as a family doctor in Papakura and heads up the Indian Association Manukau, based in Papatoetoe.
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