Preparations underway to deal with COVID in Bangkok’s city-run schools

[snoop1130]

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The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has adopted measures to deal with COVID-19 infections in hundreds of schools under its jurisdiction, which are due to reopen for on-site learning on November 15th.

 

Explaining the measures, Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang said today (Friday) that, if one student in a school is found to be infected, his or her classroom will be closed for three days and all the classmates considered at high-risk will be isolated at home. Those who are at low-risk will be allowed to continue their studies as usual, in another classroom, and their condition will be observed.

 

If infections are found in more than one classroom, the entire class year in the school will be closed for three days. Group gatherings are prohibited. Whether the school will be closed is a decision for the communicable disease committee. All high-risk students will take RT-PCR tests.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/preparations-underway-to-deal-with-covid-in-bangkoks-city-run-schools/

 

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[hotchilli]

I'm expecting a lots of classes and schools to be closing soon.

[internationalism]

pcr tests are way over the need. Waste of budget money, which suppose to go directly to education.

Atk's are from 40b, possibly ministry of education can get them directly from china even cheaper - without the GPO's brown envelopes mark up. Those tests in europe supermarkets are 75c/25b. They are given free at pharmacies, at schools, workplaces.

[George Aylesham]

Only making preparations now? But Covid has been with us for nearly two years!

[josephbloggs]

On 11/6/2021 at 10:34 AM, George Aylesham said:

Only making preparations now? But Covid has been with us for nearly two years!

School have been closed.  They are making preparations for them to reopen later this month.  Is that hard to understand?

Should they have prepared for this month's reopening of schools two years ago??

[beano2274]

In Germany they had 35000 infections, nearly 75 percent of that was people under the age of 18, get ready for a lot of classes and schools being closed.

The kids here did 2 tests per week during school hours