Vic primary school closes after teacher tests positive for COVID-19

Published: Mar 16, 2020 Duration: 00:04:03 Category: News & Politics

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Vic primary school closes public school in the inner east has closed after a member of its community it has to positive for coronavirus it comes after more than a dozen private schools told parents they would be closing early live now - Patrick Morel at the Victorian state Parliament Pat is the government moving any closer to shutting down all the schools well analyse when asked premier Daniel Andrews says that the state government is always acting on the latest advice it's received from the chief health officer and also the chief medical officer this is after Turek primary school in Melbourne in err eastern suburbs closed after a teacher there tested positive for coronavirus it's the first public school to close and this is after about 14 private schools closed after because they've had members of their community either students or teachers test positive or because they're acting out of an abundance of caution now one principal of st. Leonard's a private school in our bright and a C's criticized both the state and federal government for not acting strongly enough and not closing down all the schools when asked why premier Daniel Andrews said even though it might sound like it makes sense to close down all the schools he said in reality it would end up doing more harm that good students would have to stay home meaning that parents who work in health care nurses doctors will have to stay home as well reducing the capacity of the workforce at a time where it needs to be close to a hundred percent it's a bit Aged care homes lockdown counterintuitive that schools remain open but the advice is closing schools now that's not to say they won't close at some point in the future but if you were to close them now across the board that could make a very difficult set of circumstances even worse it could do more harm than good now in addition to this analyse we've seen eleven aged care homes in Victoria go into a partial lockdown they're blocking visitors from entering for at least two weeks these are a temporary measures before we see some more unified measures agreed on after a meeting of the national cabinet later on here in Victoria we've also seen another 23 cases of coronavirus overnight that brings the state's total number of cases up to 94 and Pat the Victorian Victorian Parliament returns Parliament returns today how has that been affected by coronavirus so Parliament is returning to sit today although in a reduced capacity we've heard from the manager of government business in the lower house Jacinta Allen she says that between 8 and 10 members of parliament are not going to show up they put themselves in isolation either because they've been in close contact with someone who has coronavirus or because they are at risk but because they have an immuno suppression or because they are elderly so less members of parliament sitting there have been pears organised just in - Ellen says the government as well as the opposition and the crossbench are working on some more long-term paring agreements just in case parliament continues to sit although in a reduced capacity as well tours at Parliament House have all been cancelled public galleries are closed as well this is the last week before our parliament heads into a big break before May during that break the government will examine what measures it can take to stop the spread of coronavirus within Parliament house including looking at letting our MPs vote from away from Parliament take a look I point to some comments that have Federal Parliament returns been made by the Prime Minister yesterday about how there's an expectation that federal parliament will operate on ask back approach in similar ways that we are seeking to in Victoria here with a broader pairing arrangement and reduced number of sitting hours and of course no doubt the government of the federal government will be looking here to perhaps see how that goes before they return to Canberra

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