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| A class of nine children, one year old, are quarantined after the detection of the first student | The City Council, through the Department of Infant Schools and Education, maintains the health protocol activated against Covid-19 after the detection of three positives, two children and their tutor, from a classroom of nine students, one year old, at La Ermita de La Alberca Infant School.After the first contagion a week ago, the family of this child notified the center and it launched the Contingency Plan.

The school's Covid Team was in charge of notifying the case to the Nursery School Service and to the health area of ??the town hall, which is in charge of monitoring, as well as to the rest of the families.The Councilor for Early Childhood Education and Schools assures that “the entire class was confined immediately and all the children have already undergone the PCR tests.

After the results, the positive of another child and of the tutor was detected.

Currently all are quarantined in their homes and are expected to return to the classroom next week.“From the first moment, we have acted with total coordination, following all the measures established in the Contingency Plan against Covid-19.

After the notification of the same, we proceeded to the cleaning and disinfection of the classroom and the entire center ”, the mayor pointed out.Likewise, as a preventive measure, the five teachers who were in contact with the tutor have also undergone PCR tests.

So far, only three results have been obtained, these being negative.

These have been kept in quarantine since they were in contact with the teacher.“We are facing a different course in which the detection of cases will be frequent, before which we must act with the maximum security and responsibility.

For this, this department has had a strict protocol against Covid-19 since July, designed by the City Council, through the Infant School Service and in collaboration with Occupational Risk Prevention and Health ”, highlighted the mayor.Each school has a Covid team, made up of the director of the center, the coordinators of each level and the pedagogical coordinator, who will be in charge of monitoring and accounting for all incidents.Among the measures, there are, in addition, accessing the center through the patio in order to control the entry and exit flows, the temperature taking when entering, the use of the dining room in shifts, as well as naps for small groups, among other.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia / Foto: archivo