Updated
Wednesday, 17th March 2021, 2:48 pm
Priory Rise School on Tattenhoe Park has today sent out an urgent notice to parents to inform them of the news.
Some pupils are already having to stay at home and self isolate after another case was identified among a classroom group on Monday.
The new case came to light after a member of the catering team took a lateral flow test. It has yet to be confirmed by a PCR test.
Covid testing
But already the school has opted to abandon food due to be cooked today shut down the canteen completely.
In a notice to parents, the school said: One of our catering team who works in the school kitchens has tested positive this morning.
In the latest stage of the vaccination programme, the NHS is now inviting all those aged 60 or over to get a life-saving COVID-19 vaccination.
This week, around two million people between the ages of 60 and 63 will be invited to book an appointment and receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Across England, there have now been 16.5 million people who have received their first jab - just over a third of the whole adult population.
Praising the ongoing vaccination programme, Professor Stephen Powis, the NHS’s national medical director, said: “The NHS vaccination programme, the biggest in the health service’s history and fastest in Europe, goes from strength to strength.
After temperatures have been dropping the council's gritting teams have been preemptively deployed to keep driving conditions safe across Milton Keynes.
This morning (27/02), it was annouced that gritting teams would be deployed all across Milton Keynes as a precautionary measure due to dropping temperatures.