The Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) is currently investigating a report of another positive case of coronavirus (COVID-19) in a secondary school.
President of the BUT Pedro Shepherd told Nation News that while he had not yet received official confirmation from the Ministry of Education, he had received reports that a Sixth Form student at the Ellerslie Secondary School in Black Rock, St Michael has tested positive for the virus.
“I am still awaiting word from the ministry, but if this is indeed the case, it is going to be the expectation going forward as schools open back up. I don’t think we need to panic over these things at this stage, we have to quarantine, isolate and manage the situation,” Shepherd said.
Efforts to get confirmation from officials in the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education have been unsuccessful thus far.
Last week, just days into the resumption of the face-to-face classes, officials announced that two schools reported exposure to the deadly virus.
Minister of Health Jeffrey Bostic said at the time that a student of Princess Margaret Secondary School had tested positive for COVID-19 and another student at St George Primary School had been placed in quarantine. The St George Primary pupil eventually tested negative for COVID-19.
The two students had been linked to two family clusters.
The Ministry of Health on Sunday gave the “all clear” for those two schools.
The Ellerslie School was temporarily closed last October after a student there tested positive for COVID-19. (Colville Mounsey)
