Covid-19: One Pasir Ris Pri School student, another from Tampines North Pri School infected in separate cases
Letters were sent to parents with children in Pasir Ris Primary School and Tampines North Primary School informing them of the infected pupil in each school.
SINGAPORE — One student from Pasir Ris Primary School and one student from Tampines North Primary School have tested positive for Covid-19, separate letters to parents from the respective principals stated on Saturday (April 4).
In the letter to Pasir Ris Primary School parents seen by TODAY, principal Tan King Ming said that a Primary 2 student had contracted the virus from a family member outside of school. The student was last in school on March 27 and had been well at the time, he stated.
The student did not attend school on March 30 and has been away since then. A positive test for Covid-19 was confirmed on April 2.
The Ministry of Health and the school have traced all students and staff members who were last in contact with the student on March 27. They will either be quarantined or placed on a leave of absence, Mr Tan stated in the letter.
“As such, no student or staff who had contact with the affected student will be in school on Monday, April 6,” he wrote.
Separately, a student from Tampines North Primary School also tested positive for Covid-19.
In a letter to parents dated April 4, school principal Ratna Elangovan said that the student had last been in school on March 27 and had been well. The student is a “close contact of a case confirmed on March 30” and took the Covid-19 test as a precaution, she wrote.
The letter did not give details on the confirmed case.
“As the student had been well and was out of school for seven days before being confirmed, there is no risk to any student or staff in our school,” Mrs Elangovan wrote, adding that there was no need to issue a leave of absence to any student or staff member.
Both schools encouraged students who are well to continue attending school on Monday and Tuesday, in order to receive instructions and materials before full home-based learning starts on Wednesday.
All schools and institutes of higher learning will be closed from April 8 to May 4 as part of Singapore’s “circuit breaker” initiative, announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong last Friday to curb the spread of Covid-19.
