Voorburg primary school closed due to Covid-19 infections
3 years, 3 months ago

Voorburg primary school closed due to Covid-19 infections

NL Times  

A primary school in Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, had to close its doors on Tuesday, in the second week of school this academic year, due to coronavirus infections. "There are so many infections at De Driemaster primary school that we had to send all classes home," school director Ewald van Vliet said to Omroep West. According to Van Vliet, at least ten other primary schools in this group had to send entire classes home after one infection. On Monday, the Outbreak Management Team advised the cabinet to relax the coronavirus rules for primary schools, so that only pupils who had direct contact with an infected pupil have to quarantine at home.

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HALF of pupils at Virginia high school are struck down by respiratory bug in mystery outbreak
2 years, 2 months ago

HALF of pupils at Virginia high school are struck down by respiratory bug in mystery outbreak

Daily Mail  

Nearly half of students at Virginia's Stafford High School were off sick this week as a flu-like illness sweeps through classrooms. Stafford High School is suffering an outbreak of a mysterious flu like illness where some students have even suffered gastrointestinal issues. It reveals cases have tripled in a month, amid concern over the winter surge starting earlier than normal …

Mandate COVID Vaccination for Adults, Don’t Make School-going Children a Scapegoat
2 years, 8 months ago

Mandate COVID Vaccination for Adults, Don’t Make School-going Children a Scapegoat

News 18  

Schooling has been a matter of enthusiastic, and often passionate, debate since the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world. The second cause of worry is the assumption that with schools being open, children would infect each other and spread it to their teachers or carry it home and infect the adults, especially the grandparents who we do know have a higher …

Protocol in place, prepared to tackle Covid infections: Delhi schools
2 years, 8 months ago

Protocol in place, prepared to tackle Covid infections: Delhi schools

Hindustan Times  

Schools in the city welcomed the standard operating procedures issued by the directorate of education on Friday to prevent the spread of Covid-19 infection on campuses, with many saying they are already implementing most of the measures listed in the guidelines. Bharat Arora, president of the Action Committee of Unaided Private Schools, a consortium of private schools, said that most …

Covid-19 cases rise again: How can you keep your children safe in schools, home
2 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19 cases rise again: How can you keep your children safe in schools, home

India Today  

Weeks after the Omicron cases subsided across India, coronavirus is once again on the rise. Parents and teachers can keep a few things in mind to keep children safe both at school and at home as new cases pop up. How to keep children safe from Covid-19 in schools, at home? Graphic: Pradeep Singh Saini Health experts have urged schools …

Health advisors say relax school quarantine rules, ahead of Tuesday press conference
2 years, 10 months ago

Health advisors say relax school quarantine rules, ahead of Tuesday press conference

Dutch News  

The government’s coronavirus Outbreak Management Team is recommending that the quarantine rules for schools be further relaxed so that entire classes no longer need to be sent home. New health minister Ernst Kuipers has sent the OMT’s recommendations to parliament ahead of Tuesday night’s press conference, during which he and prime minister Mark Rutte, will outline what changes they plan …

Health advisors say relax school quarantine rules, ahead of Tuesday press conference
2 years, 10 months ago

Health advisors say relax school quarantine rules, ahead of Tuesday press conference

Dutch News  

The government’s coronavirus Outbreak Management Team is recommending that the quarantine rules for schools be further relaxed so that entire classes no longer need to be sent home. New health minister Ernst Kuipers has sent the OMT’s recommendations to parliament ahead of Tuesday night’s press conference, during which he and prime minister Mark Rutte, will outline what changes they plan …

COVID-19 disruptions loom over start of Chicago schools
2 years, 11 months ago

COVID-19 disruptions loom over start of Chicago schools

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — Public school students in Chicago returned to classes Monday after winter break, but the latest COVID-19 surge has escalated a fight between the district and teachers union over safety protocols that could disrupt classes in the nation’s third-largest district later this week. But the Chicago Teachers Union has been critical of the district’s safety measures and planned votes …

Cabinet to decide today if schools will reopen next week
2 years, 11 months ago

Cabinet to decide today if schools will reopen next week

NL Times  

The Cabinet will decide on Monday if children will be allowed to return to school next week. The Cabinet last month ordered all primary and secondary schools to close one week before the Christmas holidays due to the rapid emergence of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus. During that press conference, RIVM director Jaap van Dissel also predicted that …

Amsterdam schools fed up with slow Cabinet Covid policy
2 years, 11 months ago

Amsterdam schools fed up with slow Cabinet Covid policy

NL Times  

Many of the 220 primary schools in Amsterdam plan to welcome Group 8 students back to classrooms immediately after the winter vacation ends on January 9, regardless of the Cabinet's pending decision to keep schools closed as part of the ongoing lockdown. When one considers that the students will have to work towards concluding primary school, select their secondary school …

CDC endorses schools’ coronavirus ‘test-to-stay’ policies
3 years ago

CDC endorses schools’ coronavirus ‘test-to-stay’ policies

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — U.S. health officials are endorsing “test-to-stay” policies that allow close contacts of students infected with the coronavirus to remain in classrooms if they test negative. “Test-to-stay is an encouraging public health practice to help keep our children in school,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on Friday. CDC’s official guidance for schools has been that when someone …

Closing schools again unfairly punishes kids: School leaders
3 years, 1 month ago

Closing schools again unfairly punishes kids: School leaders

NL Times  

While closing schools may help reduce the number of coronavirus infections, it would be terribly unfair to the children, according to primary schools' organization PO-Raad. On Wednesday, the PO-Raad, secondary schools' organization VO-Raad, university association VSNU, and education union AOb called on the Cabinet to prioritize education staff for Covid-19 booster shots. Children's Ombudsman Margrite Kalverboer asked the Cabinet to …

Education union worried about high Covid infections in primary schools
3 years, 1 month ago

Education union worried about high Covid infections in primary schools

NL Times  

Education union AOb is very concerned about the high number of coronavirus infections in primary education. Figures requested from public health institute RIVM show that 21 percent of primary school staff contracted Covid-19 in the past 18 months - much higher than the about 13 percent average among Dutch adults aged 18 to 69, the union said, NOS reports. After …

More primary school classes being sent home because of coronavirus
3 years, 1 month ago

More primary school classes being sent home because of coronavirus

NL Times  

The primary school system is seeing an increase in the number of classes having to remain at home due to coronavirus infections, ANP determined based on contact with many local GGD health services and primary school organizations. "Since the middle of last week, the suppressive effect from the autumn holidays has ended and we are seeing more infections among school …

Schools in Kerala reopen today with Covid-19 protocols
3 years, 1 month ago

Schools in Kerala reopen today with Covid-19 protocols

India Today  

Schools in Kerala are set to re-open in a staggered manner from today, that is, November 1. The schools are being reopened after a period of one-and-a-half-years for Classes 1 to 7, 10 and 12 with Covid-19 protocols like bio-bubbles in place, the state government said on Sunday. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan informed that with 95 percent of the population …

Primary schools no longer have to send entire class home after Covid infection
3 years, 3 months ago

Primary schools no longer have to send entire class home after Covid infection

NL Times  

If a child in primary education turns out to have the coronavirus, their whole class no longer has to go home from Monday. However the council, which represents primary schools in the Netherlands, emphasized that schools must receive proper guidance from the GGD in determining who should and should not go home after an infection in the classroom. Over the …

Covid: Primary schools in Uttarakhand to reopen from Sept 21
3 years, 3 months ago

Covid: Primary schools in Uttarakhand to reopen from Sept 21

Hindustan Times  

Primary schools in Uttarakhand will reopen for classes 1-5 from September 21, after they had been closed for months due to the ongoing coronavirus disease pandemic. Schools in Uttarakhand had first reopened for classes 9-12 from August 2 and then for classes 6-8 from August 16 by following all virus related norms. A nodal officer has to be appointed in …

Schools again a hotbed for coronavirus immediately after summer break
3 years, 3 months ago

Schools again a hotbed for coronavirus immediately after summer break

NL Times  

Now that schools are open again throughout the country, they have immediately become an active place for the coronavirus to spread. One in eight coronavirus infections last week, 12.5 percent, was contracted at an education or childcare facility. In The Hague and the surrounding area, 34 primary school classes were sent home in that first week, the local branch of …

Don't send home entire class after positive Covid test, experts say
3 years, 3 months ago

Don't send home entire class after positive Covid test, experts say

Dutch News  

Government health advisors are recommending that primary schools do not send home entire classes if one pupil tests positive for coronavirus, Trouw reported on Monday. However, Trouw says, the Outbreak Management Team which advises the government on dealing with the pandemic, is recommending that only pupils who have ‘close contact’ with the affected child be sent home. The current rule …

Don’t send school classes home over one coronavirus infection, says outbreak expert
3 years, 3 months ago

Don’t send school classes home over one coronavirus infection, says outbreak expert

NL Times  

The Outbreak Management Team advised the Ministry of Health to relax the coronavirus measures for primary education as of September 20. This new school year, the rule still applied that an entire classroom must stay home if one child tested positive for the coronavirus. The OMT stated that the Cabinet can responsibly announce around September 20 that from now on …

Thousands Of Students Quarantined After COVID Exposure Just Days Into School Year
3 years, 4 months ago

Thousands Of Students Quarantined After COVID Exposure Just Days Into School Year

Huff Post  

Thousands of students across the nation are already in quarantine amid COVID-19 outbreaks just days into the new school year. Tate Reeves has refused to issue a mask mandate — have been quarantined after at least 800 tested positive for COVID at the start of the school year. More than 1,000 students in Palm Beach County, Florida, were also sent …

A parent sent their child to school after a positive Covid-19 test. More than 80 students may have been exposed, officials say
3 years, 4 months ago

A parent sent their child to school after a positive Covid-19 test. More than 80 students may have been exposed, officials say

CNN  

CNN — More than 80 students were potentially exposed to Covid-19 on the first day of class in Reno, Nevada, on Monday after a parent sent their child to Marce Herz Middle School, despite both the parent and child receiving a positive Covid-19 test just two days earlier, Washoe County Health District officials said. The exposed students had to quarantine …

Florida kids head back to school amid COVID-19 surge
3 years, 4 months ago

Florida kids head back to school amid COVID-19 surge

Associated Press  

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Doctors in Florida say they’re seeing many more coronavirus infections among children just as students begin to return to classrooms. There has been “an enormous increase” in COVID-19 cases among children in July and August at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Hollywood, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ronald Ford said. “Obviously we have more people that are …

Covid-19 child cases are again rising as schools gear up to reopen. But vaccines for the youngest are still months away
3 years, 5 months ago

Covid-19 child cases are again rising as schools gear up to reopen. But vaccines for the youngest are still months away

CNN  

CNN — New Covid-19 cases among children are back on the rise after months of declines, just as schools across the United States are gearing up to reopen in a few weeks. Video Ad Feedback Surgeon General on when he still wears a mask 02:59 - Source: CNN Vaccine data for youngest likely still months away It’s “very likely” data …

Dozens of A'dam high schoolers returned from Mallorca vacation with Covid
3 years, 6 months ago

Dozens of A'dam high schoolers returned from Mallorca vacation with Covid

NL Times  

Dozens of high school students in Amsterdam were infected with the coronavirus while on their final exam trips to Mallorca in Spain. Nationwide, over 200 teenagers between 15 and 19 tested positive for the coronavirus after their exam trips in Spain or Portugal, public health institute RIVM said on Tuesday. "We sent a letter to all secondary schools asking them …

No vaccines for young children, but schools can reopen safely in the fall, a study shows
3 years, 6 months ago

No vaccines for young children, but schools can reopen safely in the fall, a study shows

LA Times  

Students wear masks and sit at socially distanced desks at a school in Ramona, Calif. Over the course of 2,000 runs of their model elementary school with a relaxed approach to masking, social distancing and isolation, a single infected child was likely to spread the coronavirus to an average of 1.7 other children over 30 days, researchers found. With students …

95% of schools fully open on Monday: Ministry
3 years, 6 months ago

95% of schools fully open on Monday: Ministry

NL Times  

The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science expects that 95 percent of secondary schools in the Netherlands to be fully open on Monday. The majority of schools that were reluctant to reopen last week will do so now, following talks with the Education Inspectorate and the Ministry, NOS reported. For this, one becomes a teacher and this is what makes …

Coronavirus has impacted on children worldwide, Dutch NGO says
3 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus has impacted on children worldwide, Dutch NGO says

Dutch News  

The Netherlands has risen one place to fifth in the annual KidsRights index, drawn up by global NGO Kids Rights Foundation which monitors how children’s rights are being respected and improved. The coronavirus pandemic has had a ‘devastating impact’ on children worldwide, the Netherlands-based foundation says. ‘With the ongoing global pandemic, we had to address the devastating impacts and outcomes …

90% don't see students taking Covid weekly self-tests, research shows
3 years, 7 months ago

90% don't see students taking Covid weekly self-tests, research shows

NL Times  

Almost 90% of those surveyed in a new Hart van Nederland poll said they find it unlikely that high school students will adhere to advice that they test themselves for coronavirus twice per week. Secondary schools were given the green light to fully reopen on May 31 on a prerequisite that all students and teachers use a free coronavirus self-test …

Miami private school asks teachers not to get Covid-19 vaccine or they won’t be allowed to return next year
3 years, 7 months ago

Miami private school asks teachers not to get Covid-19 vaccine or they won’t be allowed to return next year

CNN  

CNN — A Miami private school has asked its employees to wait to get the Covid-19 vaccine until the end of the school year, but still cautioned that if they do, they won’t be allowed to return next year, the school told staff this month. The school’s CEO and co-founder Leila Centner sent a letter to faculty and staff at …

40% of primary schools sent classes home due to Covid
3 years, 9 months ago

40% of primary schools sent classes home due to Covid

NL Times  

Since primary schools were allowed to reopen last month, over 40 percent of them have had to send at least one class home due to coronavirus infections, according to a poll of 800 primary schools by the general association of school leaders AVS, NOS reports. If you see that only 35 to 40 percent of schools had to close while …

Three elementary schools temporarily close after coronavirus outbreaks
3 years, 9 months ago

Three elementary schools temporarily close after coronavirus outbreaks

NL Times  

Three elementary schools, in Amsterdam, Beemster and Panningen, closed after multiple students and staff members were infected with the coronavirus, the AD reports. Later on, four staff members and one intern tested positive causing over thirty families to go into quarantine, largely because an adult contracted the virus. The elementary school De Riet in Panningen had to close its doors …

As one Virginia school district prepares to reopen, educators and families balance Covid precautions and normal instruction
3 years, 9 months ago

As one Virginia school district prepares to reopen, educators and families balance Covid precautions and normal instruction

CNN  

CNN — Rose Moore stands in front of a classroom, training a teacher about technology and safety for in-person learning. Can we come in less than six feet?” When CNN spoke to Brabrand last summer as they were planning for school to start in the fall, he said it would take “five Pentagons of additional space if six feet is …

New York City middle schools reopen for in-person class as Covid-19 surge fades
3 years, 10 months ago

New York City middle schools reopen for in-person class as Covid-19 surge fades

CNN  

CNN — New York City middle schools reopened for in-person classes on Thursday as a surge of coronavirus cases that had shut schools in November continued to fade. This is the second such reopening for middle schools in New York City, the nation’s largest school district. “They will continue to be the strongest protections for the health and safety of …

All primary school teachers to be tested for Covid: report
3 years, 10 months ago

All primary school teachers to be tested for Covid: report

NL Times  

The cabinet wants to have all primary school teachers throughout the Netherlands tested for the coronavirus over the next three months, whether or not they have symptoms that could indicate an infection. This is one of multiple experiments meant to quickly identify infections so that schools don't have to close, insiders told RTL Nieuws. Primary schools have been open again …

Coronavirus rule relaxation is risky but responsible, Rutte says
3 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus rule relaxation is risky but responsible, Rutte says

Dutch News  

As expected, prime minister Mark Rutte announced four changes to the current coronavirus regulations at Tuesday evening’s press conference, but said the curfew will be extended until the morning of March 15. Old lives ‘It will still be a while before we get our old lives back,’ health minister Hugo de Jonge said. ‘And we are now seeing the first …

Secondary schools want students to get on-site lessons once a week
3 years, 10 months ago

Secondary schools want students to get on-site lessons once a week

NL Times  

VO-Raad, the council for secondary schools, wants students to get on-site education at least once a week from March 1. Health Minister Hugo de Jonge promised to give an update on when secondary schools can reopen at the next coronavirus press conference on Tuesday. The secondary schools' council therefore wants the situation to return to that of before the summer …

Govt school in Ludhiana closed as 15 students contract Covid-19
3 years, 10 months ago

Govt school in Ludhiana closed as 15 students contract Covid-19

India Today  

Amid Covid-19, several cities have started reopening schools with Covid-19 SOPs. Similar was the case with Ludhiana, however, the Deputy Commissioner has ordered to close a government senior secondary school Chaunta till March 2 after two of its staff members along with 15 students tested positive for coronavirus. "The district administration closed Government Senior Secondary School, Chaunta, till March 2 …

Dr. Rochelle Walensky: CDC director says ‘we have work to do’ when it comes to reopening schools safely
3 years, 10 months ago

Dr. Rochelle Walensky: CDC director says ‘we have work to do’ when it comes to reopening schools safely

CNN  

CNN — The director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday emphasized the need for masking and other mitigation measures in order to reopen schools safely, saying “we have work to do” as teachers, students and parents continue to struggle with Covid-19’s impact on education. As that transmission comes down we’ll be able to relax some …

Almost all primary schools open again
3 years, 10 months ago

Almost all primary schools open again

NL Times  

Almost all primary schools in the Netherlands are now open to physical education again, though many are still struggling to adhere to all the coronavirus rules, according to a survey by the general association of school leaders AVS among a thousand primary schools. Only 0.4 percent of primary schools are still only giving online classes, NU.nl reports. Face masks in …

Teachers not at higher risk of Covid than other groups: RIVM boss
3 years, 10 months ago

Teachers not at higher risk of Covid than other groups: RIVM boss

NL Times  

Primary schools and daycare centers can reopen safely, Jaap van Dissel of public health institute RIVM said in a briefing to parliament on Thursday. Teachers are not at higher risk of contracting the coronaviurs than other population groups, and kids up to the age of 12 really play a small role in spreading the virus, he said, ANP and NOS …

Coronavirus in the Netherlands: what you need to know (February 2)
3 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus in the Netherlands: what you need to know (February 2)

Dutch News  

No decision has yet been taken about whether the curfew in the Netherlands should be extended but the government has confirmed primary schools will reopen on February 8. If any pupil or teacher tests positive for coronavirus, the entire class must go into quarantine and take a test after five days. Shops Non food shops, which have been closed since …

Primary schools, daycare will reopen on February 8, minister confirms
3 years, 10 months ago

Primary schools, daycare will reopen on February 8, minister confirms

Dutch News  

Education minister Arie Slob confirmed on Sunday that primary schools and daycare centres will reopen as planned on February 8, but that secondary schools and after-school clubs will remain closed. The decision has been taken on the basis of recommendations by the government’s Outbreak Management Team, which says young children are not more likely to spread the more infectious versions …

Cabinet experts say primary schools can reopen on February 8: NOS
3 years, 10 months ago

Cabinet experts say primary schools can reopen on February 8: NOS

Dutch News  

Primary schools and childcare centres can open again on February 8, government coronavirus experts say in their latest recommendations to the cabinet, ahead of Sunday’s key meeting. Nevertheless, the Outbreak Management Team’s new advice does say that relaxing the rules carries risks in the form of hospital and IC admissions, broadcaster NOS said on Saturday, quoting the leaked document. In …

150 final exam pupils sent home after Covid outbreak at house party
3 years, 11 months ago

150 final exam pupils sent home after Covid outbreak at house party

NL Times  

Secondary school De Breul in Zeist sent all 150 of its final exam pupils home on Thursday due to a Covid-19 outbreak at a house party at a peer's home. "I am very disappointed, but we have to do this to prevent a cluster outbreak," rector Ferry Brokers said to RTL Nieuws. The four students who tested positive for Covid-19 …

Primary schools to stay shut until January 18, testing expanded to more under-12s
3 years, 11 months ago

Primary schools to stay shut until January 18, testing expanded to more under-12s

Dutch News  

Primary schools and daycare centres will not reopen before January 18, education minister Arie Slob confirmed on Thursday. ‘But opening schools earlier is not on the cards, because the healthcare system is still too much under pressure from coronavirus.’ In addition, the cabinet has agreed that children under the age of 12 should also undergo tests if they have coronavirus …

As school coronavirus infections rise, teachers call for calm approach
4 years, 1 month ago

As school coronavirus infections rise, teachers call for calm approach

Dutch News  

Schools are now the fourth-most often reported source of coronavirus infections and the number of pupils picking up the virus is increasing, broadcaster NOS said on Tuesday. For example, paediatrician and epidemiologist Patrica Bruijning has suggested introducing class by class testing and variable school hours as ways of reducing the risk of infection. And the secondary school association VO Raad …

As school coronavirus infections rise, teachers call for calm approach
4 years, 1 month ago

As school coronavirus infections rise, teachers call for calm approach

Dutch News  

Schools are now the fourth-most often reported source of coronavirus infections and the number of pupils picking up the virus is increasing, broadcaster NOS said on Tuesday. For example, paediatrician and epidemiologist Patrica Bruijning has suggested introducing class by class testing and variable school hours as ways of reducing the risk of infection. And the secondary school association VO Raad …

Over 150 School Students in Haryana Test Covid-19 Positive, Authorities Order Closure of Educational Institutions
4 years, 1 month ago

Over 150 School Students in Haryana Test Covid-19 Positive, Authorities Order Closure of Educational Institutions

News 18  

Over 150 school students from three districts in Haryana have tested positive for coronavirus, prompting authorities to order closure of the educational institutions for a few days, officials said on Wednesday. While 91 students from 13 schools in Rewari district have tested positive for COVID-19, 30 students and 10 teachers of various schools in Jind district too have contracted the …

Coronavirus sees schools in US close, while Europe keeps them open
4 years, 1 month ago

Coronavirus sees schools in US close, while Europe keeps them open

CNN  

London CNN — Late last month, Ireland entered a strict, six-week lockdown against the spread of Covid-19, under which social gatherings are prohibited, exercise permitted only within five kilometers of the home, and bars and restaurants closed. “European countries have made a choice, I suppose, that trying to keep schools open is very important.” US school shutdowns Detroit Public Schools …

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