Kindergarten in New Taipei City suspended after teacher tests positive for COVID-19 新北幼兒園教師確診 52人等待PCR結果

The preschool will closed for a fortnight while 52 people are waiting for PCR test results

Presenter: Just days after the new semester started, a preschool in New Taipei City has been ordered to shut down for 14 days after one of its teachers tested positive.

Classes at a New Taipei City preschool were suspended for 14 days after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19. Cases 16128 and 16129 are a husband and wife who live in Tucheng. The husband tested positive on Sept. 4 with a Ct value of 24, and the wife was put in quarantine. She tested positive on Sept. 5 with a Ct value of 17. The wife, the preschool teacher, got a dose of Moderna in July. She developed a cough at the end of August but still continued going to work.

New Taipei City Mayor Hou Yu-ih says he hopes that teachers can get priority for a second dose as long as there are enough vaccines.

Hou Yu-ih, New Taipei City Mayor:”We hope that any teacher that hasn't gotten a vaccine should show a negative rapid test result within a week. In the meantime, we will strictly monitor the testing process. We hope to give teachers their second dose as soon as possible, but that depends on the vaccine supply.”

After the teacher tested positive, 42 students and 10 school staff were given PCR tests. Their results have not yet come back.

Hou Yu-ih, New Taipei City Mayor:”There does not appear to be a link between (the preschool case) and the EVA Air pilot case. We are in the process of tracing the infection.”

As of now, 96 percent of New Taipei City teachers have received a first dose and those that have not are required to provide negative test results to enter schools. The city has distributed 54,000 rapid screening tests to schools for use at any time. Anyone feeling unwell is asked to stay at home.

案16128和案16129是住在土城的夫妻，先生在9月4日被驗出確診、CT值為24後，太太立即被匡列隔離採檢，9月5日PCR陽性確診，CT值17，7月曾打過第一劑默德納疫苗，是一名幼兒園老師，8月底出現輕微咳嗽症狀，依然到校上課。新北市長侯友宜表示，只要疫苗夠，希望能夠給老師打第二劑疫苗。

新北市長 侯友宜：「那沒有施打疫苗的我們都會希望他們，在一個禮拜以內都要持快篩的陰性證明，我們都會嚴格落實來做要求。至於老師打第二劑，只要疫苗夠，我們希望能夠快速地給老師打第二劑的疫苗。」

案16129確診後，立即匡列幼兒園裡的幼兒42人和教職員10人，一共52人，目前還在等待PCR結果，感染源也還在釐清。

新北市長 侯友宜：「目前在整個疫調的過程當中，現在還沒有跟機師染疫的整個關聯性有扯在一塊，我們會把疫調做得更詳細更落實。」

侯友宜強調，新北市教師施打疫苗率有96%，如果沒施打疫苗，必須持陰性證明，新北市也提供5萬4千劑的快篩試劑，只要學校師生有需要，都可以隨時使用，有不舒服症狀，可以請防疫假，在家休息。