Lisbon.
The Grão Vasco boarding school in Benfica, Lisbon, closed on Thursday afternoon after the mother of a student was hospitalized with coronavirus. The student, according to an email from the day school sent to his parents, is no longer attending classes, “being in isolation at home, under medical surveillance and being asymptomatic”.
The school will be subject to disinfection during this Friday and should reopen next Monday.
Daycare in Alverca
In Alverca, Vila Franca de Xira, another case of coronavirus forced the CEBI Foundation to take exceptional measures in one of its educational establishments. A 37-year-old man, father of a child who attends the nursery of Colégio José Álvaro Vital, from that foundation, was diagnosed with Covid-19 and his clinical condition required some preventive measures, namely the “creation of 3 isolation for students and a room for workers “.
According to the recommendations of the DGS, “students and workers who show signs and symptoms of fever, cough, shortness of breath, shortness of breath and easy tiredness” will be protected in these rooms. The daycare center reports that the infected man’s wife and son
were quarantined at home.
Quarantine in Porto
At the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo, in Porto, about 40 students and teachers are in preventive isolation for having been in contact with a teacher infected with coronavirus. Classes were suspended indefinitely.
A 44-year-old teacher who taught bassoon at that establishment was the fifth case of Covid-19 infection to be confirmed in Portugal, which took the four dozen people at this school to a quarantine period despite not showing any symptoms of disease. The teacher also taught in Viana do Castelo and Covilhã.
Suspicions in Amadora
At the Roque Gameiro school, Francisco Marques, in Amadora, a teacher was tested positive for coronavirus and before the positive test, revealed the school director, she was advised by the Saúde 24 line to remain at work despite the first symptoms.
In one of the director’s statements, he reveals that the teacher contacted Saúde 24 when she returned from Milan. “She was advised to come to work Thursday and Friday [27th and 28th], on Monday morning the teacher called the school to question what it would do [since it only taught in the afternoon]. I took the risk of telling the teacher not to come to work until I had the results “of the exams, added the director.
