{"id":34174,"date":"2020-09-25T10:41:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T10:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=34174"},"modified":"2020-09-25T10:41:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T10:41:51","slug":"900-england-schools-shutdown-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/900-england-schools-shutdown-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"900 England schools shutdown due resurgence of COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The number of England schools sending their students home due to COVID-19 concerns has increased by one percent since last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>England schools sending students home due to health risks<\/h2>\n<p><strong>According to the National Health Services England, after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/universities-and-coronavirus-outbreaks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resurgence of COVID-19 cases<\/a> in the country, many England schools have decided to cancel classes and send students home.<\/strong> A rough estimate of a million students was affected since last week. Students were advised to stay at home in the meantime and observe self-isolation and self-monitoring. According to education officials, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2020\/sep\/22\/covid-19-number-of-schools-in-england-not-fully-open-quadruples\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 900 England schools<\/a> have already sent students home which translated into a 13 percent difference in attendance turnout since last week.<br \/>\n<strong>School officials blame the lack of COVID-19 testing for staff and parents.<\/strong> Also, the negligence to honestly report any instances of experiencing COVID-like symptoms has also been an immediate concern that should be addressed.<br \/>\n<strong>Here is a list of the schools that sent students back home within this week:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Cornwall.\u00a0<\/strong>School officials at Cornwall admit that around 500 students in their school have been in quarantine and self-isolation due to possible infection of COVID-19. The number represents 1.2 percent of the total student count at Cornwall.<br \/>\n<strong>Devon.\u00a0<\/strong> Around 40 students in the city of Exeter have been suspected of COVID-19 and placed on self-isolation. Though the incident seems to be isolated, teachers, parents, and students are still urged to be more careful.<br \/>\n<strong>Plymouth.\u00a0<\/strong>A resurgence of COVID-19 cases has been recorded in Plymouth, with a number of cases related to school activities and attendance. At least nine schools in Plymouth have reported possible COVID-19 cases within their scope of responsibility.<br \/>\n<strong>St. Helens.\u00a0<\/strong>Despite no reported cases at schools in the area, school officials take the precautionary measure of closing schools temporarily when the outbreak of cases occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of England schools sending their students home due to COVID-19 concerns has increased by one percent since last week. England schools sending students home due to health risks According to the National Health Services England, after a resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the country, many England schools have decided to cancel classes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":34176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}