Cairo: Five schools in the Saudi holy city of Mecca have hit the coronavirus, according to a media report, as the kingdom continues to fight to involving the potentially fatal virus.
All five are the school’s principal, his assistant, a student guide, a lab specialist, and an administrative employee, The Saudi newspaper Sabq reported, which mentioned unidentified sources.
The infection started last week after the school’s deputy principal experienced some symptoms of COVID-19 and then tested positive for the disease. Soon, his colleagues showed the symptoms of the virus and also tested positive.
Other school administrative staff, who have come into contact with their poorly ill-health colleagues, will be tested for the virus.
This week, the school government in Mecca closed a number one school after one of its administrators tested positive for COVID-19, according to Sabq.
Earlier this week, the school year began in Saudi Arabia, and academics stayed away from classrooms, depending on distance education systems for the first seven weeks as a precautionary measure to involve the virus.
Administrative reported to schools.
All educational establishments were closed in the kingdom last March as a result of a series of strict measures against the COVID-19 epidemic.
Saudi Arabia has recorded 315,772 cases of viruses and 3,897 similar deaths.
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