Principal of Fitzroy school at centre of Covid cluster denies breaking latest Melbourne lockdown rules
The Fitzroy Community School has been closed for deep cleaning since last Thursday, when a teacher at the school tested positive for Covid-19. There are now at least 33 positive cases connected to the school.
Berryman says about 60 of the school’s 120 students have been attending school during the current lockdown. He insisted that all of the students attending fell into one of the exempted categories.
A recent Australian study found that once Covid gets into a school community it spreads rapidly into households with a transmission rate of up to 70.7%. While children face a much lower risk of severe illness or death from coronavirus than adults, they remain vulnerable to long Covid.
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Forty-five per cent of all active Covid cases in Melbourne are in children and teenagers.In NSW, more than 2,700 cases have been in people aged 19 and under, accounting for 30% of infections.
Of the 633 cases announced on Wednesday, 63 were in kids aged nine and under, and 104 in people aged 10 to 19.
Across Australia, since the beginning of the pandemic there have been more than 2,800 Covid cases in children under 10.
