Coronavirus: half-term in the UK, spring break here?
From The Guardian live update thread:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/feb/25/coronavirus-live-updates-outbreak-latest-news-italy-italia-deaths-symptoms-china-stocks-wall-street-dow-jones-economy-falls
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1h ago
13:07
Schools across the UK are sending pupils home as they struggle to comply with the latest official advice on Covid-19 for students and staff who spent last week’s half-term holiday in northern Italy.
Penair School in Truro this morning told parents to collect children who had been on a skiing trip to Ponte di Legno, which is near the Swiss border and well away from the towns currently under lockdown by the Italian authorities.
In a message sent to parents the Truro school said: “Following an announcement at 8am this morning, regarding the coronavirus, by the health secretary and having sought guidance from Public Health England (PHE) we are required to send all children and staff home who attended the ski trip, to self-quarantine for 14 days. Please be assured this is a precautionary measure.”
Meanwhile Brine Leas Academy in Nantwich said it was temporarily closing its sixth form after teachers and students also returned from a half-term trip to Italy. Cransley School, an independent school also in Cheshire, announced it would close for a week after some pupils reported feeling ill after a skiing trip to Bormio in Lombardy.
The decisions followed today’s updated advice from PHE for travellers returning from northern Italy – defined as north of Pisa, Florence and Rimini – to self-isolate if they felt symptoms of Covid-19, including fever or shortness of breath. PHE also said any travellers who had visited the 11 “specific lockdown areas” in northern Italy since 19 February should call 111 and avoid contact with others.
Other parents report being told to keep their children home from school after returning from family holidays in northern Italy over the half-term break.
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((I somehow think many spring break trips to Europe are being cancelled or rescheduled.
So far, the JHU website https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
shows the Western hemisphere as only having cases ((just about all imported)) in the US and Canada.
But what if it starts spreading thru the Americas?
https://www.inertiatours.com/when-is-spring-break-2020/ is a site listing many college spring break dates.
133 of them are shown as 7-14 March.
128 of them are shown as 14-21 March.
39 of them are shown as 21-28 March.
"Kiss kiss" leads to symptom spread?
I hope not.
Let's save it for baseball Opening Day?? (ha ha) ))