Primary school shuts and children and staff go into quarantine after catering worker tests positive for coronavirus
A primary school has been forced to close for two weeks after a member of the ‘external catering team’ tested positive for coronavirus.
Staff and parents at Epsom Primary School in Surrey were warned about the positive test and were advised to go into self isolation for two weeks.
Public Health England said anyone who had school dinners should go into self isolation as a precaution.
Head teacher Michelle Pollard told Surrey Live that she is ‘disappointed’ that the school has been forced to shut ‘at a time when some normality was returning for our children’.
Only people who had come into contact with the school dinner team need to self-isolate. Although, if someone goes on to develop Covid-19 symptoms, all members of that household will also have to self isolate.