Coronavirus, Parramatta: OLMC Parramatta student second to test positive
A Parramatta girls’ school has had two students test positive for coronavirus within days of each other, prompting the college to move to online learning.
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A second student at Our Lady of Mercy College has contracted COVID-19, days after another girl at the Parramatta school tested positive to the virus.
NSW Health said the school was already closed for cleaning on Monday and contact tracing is under way after the first student tested positive late last week.
The school sent a note to families on Saturday night informing them it would move to remote learning after the positive case.
The school said it began working to find teachers or students who may have close contacts of the student as soon as NSW Health informed staff.
Students and staff must self-isolate until further advice from NSW Health.
OLMC is opposite St Patrick’s Cathedral and near Bayanami Public School, which were also shut for two weeks last month when a student and churchgoer tested positive to COVID-19.
The worshipper attended Mass at the church on July 19 and a child at the school who attended on July 24 tested positive to coronavirus.
The cases add to the growing list of COVID-19 cases across the community, including Our Lady of Lebanon Co-Cathedral at Harris Park, Milky Lane burger eatery at Parramatta, St Margaret Mary’s Primary School, Merrylands, Cerdon College at Merrylands, and Anytime Fitness at Merrylands.
The most recent case at OLMC will be added to tomorrow’s case numbers in NSW, which recorded 14 diagnoses in the 24 hours to 8pm last night, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 3686.
Of the 14 new cases, one is a returned traveller from overseas, one was acquired from Victoria, one was locally acquired with no link to other cases at this point and 11 were locally acquired and linked to known cases.
The clusters include Thai Rock at Wetherill Park (111 cases), funerals at Bankstown (63), 15 linked to Mounties at Mt Pritchard and 34 cases linked to Potts Point (28 cases were traced back to Apollo Restaurant and six are linked with the Thai Rock Restaurant Potts Point).
There have been 52 deaths 1.6 million tests carried out in NSW.