News24 reports that the Western Cape education department said on Tuesday that Parkvale Primary School in Valhalla Park was the second school in Cape Town to have a positive Covid-19 case among educators.
The case was recorded in the first week of the return of teachers to school to prepare for the phased reopening next Monday for grades 7 and 12. Spokesperson for education MEC Debbie Schäfer, Kerry Mauchline, confirmed that the school was closed and would reopen after the department's protocols, such as deep-cleaning, had been followed. This development came after Hague Primary School reported on Monday that a staff member had tested positive for Covid-19. However, the department advised that that school would reopen on 1 June after it had also followed protocols. Various provincial branches of the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) have called for teachers not to return to school if they are not happy with the school's preparedness in providing protection, including in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Cebelihle Mthethwa at News24
- Read too, Staffer at a Cape Town’s Hague primary school tests positive for Covid-19, at News24
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