Hundreds to isolate after students test positive for COVID-19 at two Sydney schools

Two Sydney schools will be closed for deep cleaning after three students tested positive for COVID-19, sending hundreds of staff and students into isolation.

Contact tracing is under way after two students from a school in Sydney’s southwest and another at a school in western Sydney tested positive for COVID-19, sending hundreds of staff and students into isolation.

Greenway Park Public School in Carnes Hill, west of Casula, is closed for deep cleaning. The before-and-after-school care program has been cancelled.

Bonnyrigg High School, in Sydney’s west, has also closed after a student returned a positive test.

Greenway Park Public School is closed for COVID-19 deep cleaning. Picture: Supplied

“The school will be non-operational tomorrow for the on-site attendance of staff and students to allow time for the school to complete the contact tracing process and have the school cleaned,” the school said in a statement posted to Facebook.

NSW Education said both schools would be “thoroughly cleaned” and it would assist the health department with the contact tracing process.

“All staff and students are asked to self-isolate while contact tracing occurs,” the department said.

Bonnyrigg High School, in Sydney’s west, has also closed after a student tested positive. Picture: Supplied

Advice on when students can return to face-to-face learning is expected later on Tuesday.

NSW reported 13 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, four of which were returned travellers from overseas or Victoria.

Others were linked to clusters, and one case had no known source.