Quarantined – 48 students from SMK Tulid hostel
Published on: Monday, January 25, 2021
By: NST
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48 students from the hostel at SMK Tulid have been quarantined as they were close contacts of a teacher who had contracted Covid-19. - Pic courtesy of a reader
KENINGAU: Forty-eight students from the hostel at SMK Tulid, here, have been quarantined as they were close contacts of a teacher who had contracted Covid-19.Tulid Assemblyman Flovia Ng confirmed a message that went viral that the group of Form Five students were sent to Institut Pendidikan Guru (IPG), here, for screening and quarantine.
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“Forty-eight students have been screened and quarantined at the IPG. Twenty-nine of the students are close contacts while 19 are not.
“All of them have symptoms (associated with Covid-19). RTK-Ag tests have been done on six students and one of them is positive for Covid-19,” she said, adding the infected teacher and student have been referred to the Keningau Hospital.
Following the incident, Ng added that the school has to follow the rules based on the standard operating procedures given by the Education Ministry.
She also urged the public to heed experts’ advice, particularly from the Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, as everyone plays an important role in breaking the chain of infection.
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“Practise social distancing which I cannot emphasise too much, avoid social gatherings that are not necessary and practise personal hygiene.”
Meanwhile, according to a source, students who are not being sent to the centre have to be at the dormitory for 10 days starting on Saturday.
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It is learnt that the teacher was found positive for Covid-19 on Friday, days after doing a swab test for the virus.
Following the finding, the Health Ministry, using a Civil Defence Force truck, brought the students to the quarantine centre around 3pm.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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