High school issues face mask request after positive Covid tests
Published:
1:40 PM November 11, 2021
Kevin Blakey, principal of Great Yarmouth Charter Academy. - Credit: Great Yarmouth Charter Academy
Students, staff and visitors to a Great Yarmouth high school will be requested to wear face masks from today in its communal areas after three positive Covid tests were confirmed.
Great Yarmouth Charter Academy has sent a letter out to parents dated November 10 saying that it has had three positive case confirmed by PCR tests.
The letter from principal Kevin Blakey says the following consultation with the Norfolk Outbreak Team at Public Health England the academy will be bringing in a new measure concerning the use of face masks.
Parents were also asked to carry out lateral flow tests on their children before they came into school today.