COVID-19 in Clarendon schools

The Corona virus continues to spread across the island and is now being detected in some Clarendon schools. According to reports from the medical officer of the parish, Dr Kimberly Scarlett Campbell, some schools have been affected by Covid-19 in the past few weeks. This report was made on Wednesday, May 11 at the Clarendon Inter Agency Network (CIAN) meeting.

“We closed two schools this week. There was a school where at least six teachers were positive in one community and there was another school up north where they went on a trip and there were teachers from different locations in Clarendon who went on the trip and persons were coming down with symptoms, so we had to close another school in Northern Clarendon,” she said. The teachers are now in quarantine and isolation.

 But, the medical officer noted that 30 people at another school in the parish were complaining about symptoms of the virus. “The numbers have started to go up at the May Pen Hospital already. We are doing a lot of investigations in the schools, and we have had to close two already and we will see how it goes at those locations. We should be going into the third location by Thursday (May 12) to Friday (May 13),” Dr Scarlett Campbell said.

 There are also reports about 32 active Covid-19 cases confirmed in the communities of Palmer’s Cross, Portland Cottage, and Trout Hall.

It is reported that there are seven hospital cases with four confirmed and three suspected of having the corona virus.