About 40 Adelaide students are in self-isolation after a woman with coronavirus attended two Adelaide schools.
The adult student in her 20s attended Thebarton Senior College and Gepps Cross’s Roma Mitchell Secondary College while in the infectious stage of coronavirus.
She was a close contact of a known coronavirus case.
Her and a teenage girl are now in hotel quarantine.
The schools will be closed for deep cleaning today.
Education Minister John Gardner said it was possible a few more students could be added as close contacts.
“They will be notified, but as far as [we] understand, that work has largely been done to this point,” he said.
“But anyone who is feeling sick should be tested as soon as possible.”
Health Minister Stephen Wade said putting the students into isolation had already reduced the risk within the school community.
“We’ll be working with the schools to see what assistance we can give to the schools to provide testing,” he said.
“For example, we’ve got 11 mobile testing vans; it may well be that one or more of the vans will go to one or more of the schools to make it as easy as possible.”
source – ABC news
