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Schools in safe areas may open when new semester starts on July 1

By THE NATION

 

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Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan said on Wednesday (May 20) that the Public Health Ministry has proposed to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration to allow the reopening of schools located in areas free from Covid-19 cases.

 

The ministry has surveyed those schools to see which ones should be reopened. The first semester of the year will start on July 1 as previously scheduled, he added.

 

The ministry issued its latest guidelines on Covid-19 prevention for schools on Saturday (May 17), covering several matters from high-risk people to sanitation of schools.

 

The ministry stated that the high-risk ones, after Covid-19 cases are confirmed, were found to be patients’ close persons, whether friends, colleagues, or those talking to the patients for more than five minutes, within a range of one metre. It also included those who had been with the patients in the same air-conditioned rooms or spaces for more than 15 minutes, within a one-metre range.

 

According to the ministry, schools that reopen must sanitise every area and provide sanitisers for both students and staff. Social distancing must be applied to all areas of the schools, and the personal belongings of each student must be separated.

 

The ministry also said that the sick leave of students and school staff will be checked and informed to local public health officials, and both students and staff must be screened before entering the schools.

 

If the confirmed or suspected cases are found in a student's family, the school must prohibit all gatherings, the ministry added.

 

In addition, it was stated that all places must be sanitised after the confirmed cases are found, and those suspected persons in the schools must be quarantined at home and their condition checked regularly.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30388239

 

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3000 kids per government school, maybe hundreds of schools

 

All it will take is one kid to get COVID, or one teacher, or one farang "teacher".  closed.  

 

I expect schools to open in July and close in August.  

 

rinse and repeat until vaccine

 

if you had a kid, would you send him to school?  i'm not sure.  80% probably OK, but I'm totally guessing.  maybe 50%, 10%, 90%....nobody knows.  it's your kid's health, why risk it?

 

one teacher coughs.....omg.

 

 

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1 hour ago, webfact said:

According to the ministry, schools that reopen must sanitise every area and provide sanitisers for both students and staff. Social distancing must be applied to all areas of the schools, and the personal belongings of each student must be separated.

:cheesy: 40+ students crammed into a small classroom. Sanitisers for both students and staff. Some of the big high schools have 3 or 4 thousand students and a few hundred teachers. I expect the entire stock of sanitisers supplied to a school will be gone wthin a week if not a day. 

 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The ministry also said that the sick leave of students and school staff will be checked and informed to local public health officials, and both students and staff must be screened before entering the schools.

This is obviously temp checks. Doesn't pick up asymptomatic.

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16 minutes ago, Ventenio said:

if you had a kid, would you send him to school?  i'm not sure.  80% probably OK, but I'm totally guessing.  maybe 50%, 10%, 90%....nobody knows.  it's your kid's health, why risk it?

When I was a kid we were intentionally exposed to various diseases. Better to get them when you're young. Now everyone is immunised hence no antibodies.

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Just now, Canuck1966 said:

Hardly any kids are getting sick 

This Chinese Flu has been around since the start of the year (at least) and the kids didn't break up til March

I didn't hear about any outbreaks in schools

EXACTLY!!!! This thing was floating around in Thailand totally unrestricted till the 'soft' lockdown. I would hazard a guess its been here longer than most other countries.......November last year??? Before? Possible. 

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