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Health Ministry chief urges 5th, 6th-grade teachers to get tested
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe director-general of the Health Ministry is urging teachers of fifth and six grades to go get tested for coronavirus, ahead of the resumption of in-person studies in those grades next week.
Chezy Levy makes the plea in a briefing to journalists.
Levy says the basic reproduction rate, which measures the transmission of the virus, around the country currently stands at 1.08, indicating it is spreading. This is higher than health officials would like, he says.
Levy says infections are seeing a slight rise but cases among schoolchildren are “stable.”
He says the country has yet to register flu cases.
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