Re: COVID-19: 2,948 new cases on Monday
UK Summary
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases
Updated on Tuesday 15 September 2020 at 3:58pm
People tested positive
Daily
3,105
Total
374,228
We're back to the daily rolling average again (3,000) .....
Primary school bubble sent home after suspected Covid case
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/coronavirus
Sixty pupils and a number of staff at a primary school in Truro have been sent home because of a suspected case of Covid-19.
The decision was made at Tregolls School after
one parent tested positive for coronavirus and a child was awaiting results, staff said. As a precautionary measure,
the school has decided all children in that bubble must stay at home, they added.
Head teacher Lara Jeffries said it was hoped test results would be back "hopefully Wednesday or Thursday". She added: "Then we just really want to get children back into school as quickly as we possibly can".
Therein lies an example of the disruptive ramifications of badly run testing - only 1 family unit was "positive" and therefore required to isolate but over 60 other family units have now been requested to adopt temporary isolation procedures - so that's over 60 sets of parents/grandparents/childminders, etc. required to give up work, caring, etc. and perhaps have to make travel arrangements to reach a testing centre then await results, a process which could involve travelling several hundred miles and lasting a week or more .....
That's just ONE school - there will be hundreds over the coming weeks .....