Coronavirus: Staff and pupils test positive in Dundee school outbreak

Three"community contacts" linked to Kingspark School also tested positive for COVID-19 as of 6pm on Sunday, NHS Tayside said.

The school, which caters for children with additional support needs, has been closed since last Wednesday due to the outbreak and pupils have been told to self-isolate for 14 days from last Thursday. Any parents, carers or siblings living with the children should also self-isolate if they cannot self-distance within the household.

Staff have been told to quarantine for a fortnight from the last day they were on site, while anybody who was in contact with those infected has also been told to self-isolate for 14 days.Contact tracing identified a link with two other schools in Dundee, with one Primary Two child at St Peter and Paul's School testing positive on Sunday and another case identified at the Happy Times out-of-school club at Downfield Primary School on Sunday.

The outbreak at Kingspark School, which only has 185 pupils, came after schools reopened in Scotland from 11 August.

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