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ARABIC – RUSSIAN – HEBREW – SPANISH

 COVID-19 Update 

We would like to ask from everyone to show the highest level of responsibility and co-operation, in order to make sure that our students are safe at school.

Please check your children on a daily basis with regards to the following list before sending them to school. It is our obligation to protect our children.

List of Possible Covid-19 Symptoms

  • Temperature (˃37.3oC repeated 3 times) with or without chills
  • Cough
  • Trouble breathing
  • Loss of taste or smell
  • Blocked nose and/or sensitivity in the eyes
  • Muscle aches
  • Feeling weak and tired
  • Headache
  • Sore throat
  • Stomach pains
  • Gastroenteritis symptoms (i.e. nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea)
  • Rash
  • The child or a member of the family came into contact with a suspected or confirmed COVID-19 case in the last 14 days

 

If your child or any other member of your family presents with any of the symptoms listed above, the student:

  1. cannot come to school
  2. has to isolate at home and contact the school
  3. has to contact the family physician/paediatrician to receive further guidance
  4. can return to school only with a doctor’s note

 Important Notes

  1. If any student or a member of the student’s family tested positive or came into contact with a known positive case:
    1. the family will have to inform the school immediately and remain in quarantine
    2. the family will be contacted directly by the Ministry of Health to receive guidelines
    3. the family will have to immediately take a COVID-19 test
  2. If a family member(s) came into close contact with a positive Covid-19 case they have to immediately take a test. Even if the test result is negative, they will still have to remain in isolation for 14 days otherwise their child cannot come to school.
  3. If a family member(s) has travelled back from a Category C country, they will have to remain in isolation for 14 days otherwise their child cannot come to school.
  4. A close contact is defined as a contact of >15 minutes duration at a distance of <2 metres from the outbreak with a confirmed COVID-19 infection or immediate contact with excretions of the respiratory system without the use of personal protective equipment