Scarborough’s Covid infection rate has jumped once more as a community group claims that children sent home from school due to outbreaks are not isolating.
One of the town’s secondary schools, Graham School, which has approximately 1,000 pupils has closed for 10 days due to an outbreak of cases.
The school will be closed until July 6 to allow deep cleaning to take place and make sure everyone who has tested positive and their close contacts have had a full 10 days of isolation.
Scarborough Sixth Form College has also moved to online learning for its students until July 6 due to a “significant number” students having to isolate.
Data from Public Health England shows that the majority of cases are being recorded in 10 to 14 year olds, which has a case rate of 444.
The borough’s seven day infection rate per 100,000 people now stands at 121, up from 94 yesterday and by almost 100 on this time last week.
Scarborough’s Gallows Close Centre, a community group for young people, announced last week it was also closing for 10 days due to children who should be isolating mixing with those using its services.
A statement on the group’s Facebook page said:
“As some of you may know some of our local schools are sending pupils home to isolate for 10 days, unfortunately this is not happening out of school and the children are playing in the park or mixing with other children putting others at risk including staff.
“As a small team and community centre under no circumstances is this acceptable nor will we allow staff to be put at risk through the negligence of others.
“The decision has been made to cancel classes for 10 days until hopefully things die down again.”
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