Several Wang Learning Centre students to quarantine after sharing class with Learning Point Covid-19 cluster case
The EastGate building along East Coast Road where the affected branch of the education centre is located.
SINGAPORE — Eleven students and a teacher from Wang Learning Centre have been put under quarantine after coming into contact with another student who recently tested positive for Covid-19.
The student attended a class at Wang Learning Centre’s branch in East Coast on May 9.
The same student also attended a class at Learning Point on May 8, the Chinese tuition centre told CNA on Saturday (May 15).
On the website of Wang Learning Centre, it states that its East Coast branch is located at EastGate building along East Coast Road. The centre occupies several units on different floors in the building.
Wang Learning Centre said that it had scheduled a “full professional disinfection” on May 10, and that the Ministry of Health (MOH) had also asked it to identify the people who were in the same classroom as the infected student.
No other branches were affected, Wang Learning Centre said.
The company, which has eight outlets across Singapore, will move all classes online from May 16 to June 13 as part of enhanced regulations.
The centre said that other existing safety measures include SafeEntry check-in, temperature-taking, as well as mandatory mask-wearing. Surfaces are also disinfected during the 30-minute interval between classes.
“Teachers are not allowed to come to work if symptoms are spotted and are required to see a doctor immediately. We also hired professional disinfection services to disinfect our centres last weekend and this week,” it added.
MOH on Friday said that five Covid-19 cases, all of them students, have been linked to a previous case, a 50-year-old Singaporean woman who works as a tutor at Learning Point tuition centre at Parkway Centre.
All five students had attended the tutor's classes.
Among them are students from Kong Hwa School, St Stephen's School and St Andrew's Junior School. Some of the schools issued notices that they would conduct home-based learning after the detection of the cases. CNA
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