Two high schools in Sydney have been closed down for today and tomorrow due to three students tested positive for Coronavirus. Year ten students one boy and another girl from St Patrick’s Marist College in Dundas was tested positive for Coronavirus over the weekend. Both of their father has also been tested positive for Coronavirus as well.
Another year seven girl from Willoughby Girls High School has been tested positive for Coronavirus as well, her mother is confirmed positive case as well.
Both schools had been closed at least until Wednesday, this will allow the schools to be disinfected and contact tracing to be conducted by the Department of Health.
Epping Boys High School that was closed on last Friday had been reopened today.
At this point, we can be sure that more school closure like what had happened in the last few days will happen as well. At this point, we will probably continue seeing short closure not full longer shutdown that we are seeing in China, Japan, Korea etc. Looking at social media, some worried parents are keeping their children out of the schools with reported cases. And as previously discussed, if this situation escalated further, we may very well see longer-term school closure especially around the coming Autumn holiday. There is a good argument for mass school closure, however, unless that is carried out with other actions like cancelling all public events etc, it will be rather pointless.
Unless we can somehow contain the Coronavirus in Australia, hiding in your house for three months will not solve the problem. Because if half the population has been infected, you will probably get it at some stage.
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