A year six student at Prospect Primary School has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, Public Health confirmed Tuesday afternoon.
The student and primary contacts at the school are being quarantined and Public Health has been on site to conduct testing, a Ministry of Education statement said.
“In order to facilitate deep-cleaning activities, the Prospect Primary School will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday 29 September 2021. The Department of Education Services (DES) will advise on reopening. Public Health will contact other parents, as required, or indicated based on findings of contact tracing activities,” the statement added.
The school’s leaders have also reached out to the parents/guardians of the child’s classmates for them to attend the school to consent for testing, the statement said.
Meanwhile, the Health and Wellness Ministry has said as of 3 p.m. on Tuesday there were eight positive COVID-19 results, four of which were in travellers, two in household members of a returning traveller, and two community cases.
A total of 511 PCR tests were processed since the last report on Monday.
No further information was provided on the student who tested positive Tuesday. It is unclear whether the child is symptomatic or not.
These latest cases take the total active COVID-19 cases to 56, one of whom remains hospitalised.
According to the Ministry stats, 19 individuals are showing signs of the virus and 37 are asymptomatic.
In Tuesday’s cases, five of the individuals are unvaccinated and three are vaccinated.
The total overall COVID-19 cases now stand at 820, of which 762 are fully recovered.
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