Yogya Task Force Random Check, 4 Students Positive For COVID-19 During Face-to-Face Learning

JAKARTA - The results of examinations carried out on students and teachers from a number of schools holding face-to-face learning in the city of Yogyakarta showed that four students were confirmed positive for COVID-19.

"Out of 1,015 samples taken from 14 schools, there were four students with positive results for COVID-19. All of them were from one school," said Heroe Poerwadi, Head of the Yogyakarta COVID-19 Handling Task Force in Yogyakarta, Thursday, November 25.

The findings of the corona virus infection case were followed up by tracking and examining people who had close contact with students who were infected with COVID-19. The number of close contacts examined was recorded at 59 people.

"Testing was carried out today. And from temporary monitoring, 70 percent of close contacts showed negative results," said Heroe.

He said that the four students who were confirmed positive for COVID-19 were in good condition, all of them had no symptoms of illness.

"All four of them have also been vaccinated," he said, quoted from Antara.

Heroe said that the cause of the four students contracting COVID-19 was still being investigated.

"There are (who) parents are outside the area and have just come to Yogyakarta. There are also students whose parents had COVID-19 in July, so it is possible that there are still remnants of virus shells detected because their CT is high, 37," he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Yogyakarta City Education, Youth and Sports Office, Budhi Asrori, said that face-to-face learning activities at schools where four students had contracted COVID-19 were temporarily suspended.

"We stopped for five days. All learning was transferred back to the online system," he said.

With the finding of COVID-19 cases in these students, the number of daily COVID-19 cases in Yogyakarta City increased to 11 cases on Wednesday (24/11).

Apart from the results of examinations at schools, cases of corona virus infection were detected through screening examinations of patients in hospitals and close contact tracing.