St Helena's Church of England Primary School in Willoughby, Alford.
A Lincolnshire village school has closed for a second time over coronavirus fears after a staff’s family member was admitted to hospital to be re-tested.
That person had tested negative for COVID-19 on Sunday, but after the latest development St Helena’s Church of England Primary School in Willoughby, Alford had to close again.
In a post on the school’s Facebook page on Thursday evening, headteacher Mrs Belton said: “It is with the greatest regret that I have to inform you that the staff’s family member, who tested negative for the virus on Sunday, has been admitted to Grimsby hospital where he is being re-tested for COVID-19.
“The whole school is obliged to close again because there are siblings of those children in the affected key worker bubble in every other group.
“Again we shall inform you of school’s reopening when the test result is returned. If it proves positive, the advice will be for us all to isolate for 14 days.
“I am sure you will join me in sending our warmest wishes to the family concerned and hope the patient recovers soon.”
The latest statement from the school in full. Photo: St Helena’s Church of England Primary School, Willoughby Facebook page
This is not the first time coronavirus has forced the school to close this month.
The school said in an earlier post on June 5: “So, the first week of welcoming some children back had gone as well as it could until yesterday (June 4); then the inevitable happened.
“I do hope that closing school until we hear of the test result was what you would have wanted us to do. One thing that has really helped us during this difficult time has been your supportive messages, full of care and compliments – thank you.”
The statement from June 5 in full. Photo: St Helena’s Church of England Primary School, Willoughby Facebook page
The school also re-iterated that children had stayed in their allocated spaces with their allocated adults and that no-one met up at break times or lunch.
Meanwhile, Professor Derek Ward, director of public health at Lincolnshire County Council, told Lincolnshire Reporter on Friday that it has had three schools with confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of June 11 and had provided the advice and support required.
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Saturday, May 8, is the final day of counting votes in the local elections, with results expected today for the Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner.
People took to the polls on Thursday, May 6, to decide who would be their new ward councillors, as well as the Police and Crime Commissioner. Due to safety measures surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, votes for the PCC are counted Saturday.
Marc Jones was the second-elected PCC of Lincolnshire in May 2016 and this time his role is being challenged by Labour City of Lincoln councillor Rosanne Kirk and Chair of the Lincolnshire Police Independent Advisory Group (IAG), David Williams from the Lincolnshire Independents party, Ross Pepper from the Liberal Democrats and Peter Escreet from the Reform Party.
Local Democracy Reporters Daniel Jaines and James Mayer are at the Lincoln counting centre today to bring you the result as it is announced.
There have been 248 coronavirus cases in Greater Lincolnshire and three COVID-related deaths so far this week – a 7% drop in cases but two more deaths than the previous week.
The government’s COVID-19 dashboard on Friday recorded 35 new cases in Lincolnshire, four in North Lincolnshire and four in North East Lincolnshire.
One death was registered in North Lincolnshire. These figures include deaths both in and out of hospitals, as well as residents in hospitals outside the county.
NHS England reported two hospital deaths this week so far. Friday’s death was at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, the first death there in over a month. This time last week, no hospital deaths were recorded across Greater Lincolnshire hospitals.
On Friday, national cases increased by 2,490 to 4,431,043, while deaths rose by 15 to 127,598.
In local news, all people under the age of 40 will be offered an alternative COVID-19 vaccination to the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab after fears that young people could get rare blood clots.
The move is a precautionary one after evidence of young people suffering from blood clots once they were given the AstraZeneca jab increased.
A Year 9 student at Cleethorpes Academy has tested positive for coronavirus, resulting in 28 pupils now self-isolating as a precaution.
Principal Mrs Janice Hornby sent a letter to parents/carers on Thursday, May 6 and said the school is continuing to monitor the situation and is working closely with Public Health England.
In national news, England’s R number has fallen slightly to between 0.8 and 1, latest figures show.
This means that on average, every 10 people infected with COVID-19 will pass it on to between eight and 10 other people.
The Prime Minister has said the government needs to carefully handle outbreaks of the India variant of coronavirus in the UK.
It comes as Public Health England (PHE) said one version of it had been elevated to a “variant of concern”.
Coronavirus data for Greater Lincolnshire on Friday, May 7
Greater Lincolnshire includes Lincolnshire and the unitary authorities of North and North East (Northern) Lincolnshire.
59,937 cases (up 43)
41,627 in Lincolnshire (up 35)
9,614 in North Lincolnshire (up four)
8,696 in North East Lincolnshire (up four)
2,192 deaths (up one)
1,617 from Lincolnshire (no change)
307 from North Lincolnshire (up one)
268 from North East Lincolnshire (no change)
of which 1,305 hospital deaths (up one)
812 at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust (no change)
41 at Lincolnshire Community Health Service hospitals (no change)
1 at Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust (no change)
451 in Northern Lincolnshire (NLAG) (no change)
4,431,043 UK cases, 127,598 deaths
DATA SOURCE — FIGURES CORRECT AT THE TIME OF the latest update. postcode data includes deaths not in healthcare facilities or in hospitals outside authority boundaries.
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