Darasamuth School closed over infections

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Image: Darasamuth Phuket School

 

By The Phuket News

 

PHUKET: Darasamuth Phuket School has closed for seven days after a cluster of seven students and one home room teacher were found to be infected with COVID-19.

 

The school announced the closure late yesterday afternoon (Nov 14).

 

“This last week we have seen 8 new cases of positive for Covid-19 infections. One student from Kindergarten class 3/5 received a positive test result. The student in question has been off school since November 2nd, and therefore did not put the rest of the students in KG 3/5 at risk,” the school said in its announcement.

 

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Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/darasamuth-school-closed-over-infections-82036.php

 

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[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

PHUKET: Darasamuth Phuket School has closed for seven days after a cluster of seven students and one home room teacher were found to be infected with COVID-19

Bound to happen.

[brewsterbudgen]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

Bound to happen.

Yes.  But why close the school?  Are they going to do this every time there's an infection? 

[hotchilli]

6 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Yes.  But why close the school?  Are they going to do this every time there's an infection? 

They have no other ideas... so probably yes.

[sungod]

Why insist on kids having vaccines as a condition of reopening if all they do is close again?

[Bkk Brian]

15 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Yes.  But why close the school?  Are they going to do this every time there's an infection? 

I hope not, its not like that in the Phuket Int school my daughter goes to, they found a teacher positive there last week but all kids were negative so no problem. There seems to be some over reaction here but it could be because those found positive were in multiple year groups so lots of high risk contacts?

 

All 12 years + have been freshly vaccinated with pfizer in Phuket so I'm guessing it was kids under that age.

 

What is also very concerning however is what they do with the kids found positive, as in the full article it also mentions another school:

 

"The Phuket News was informed by a concerned parent over the weekend of 13 young students at Baan Sapam School in Koh Kaew being taken to “hospitel” quarantine after confirmation of infections there.

The concerned parent provided photos of the students being accompanied by adults onto songtaew buses provided by Koh Kaew Tambon Administration Organisation (OrBotTor) as they were being taken to quarantine.

No officials in Phuket have publicly recognised any infections at the school."

 

Why are they taking such a large group of young kids into quarantine when all parents are already vaccinated in Phuket?