{"id":70076,"date":"2022-03-24T07:33:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T21:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=70076"},"modified":"2022-03-24T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T21:03:08","slug":"school-classrooms-will-be-sent-home-if-they-hit-tipping-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/school-classrooms-will-be-sent-home-if-they-hit-tipping-point\/","title":{"rendered":"School Classrooms Will Be Sent Home If They Hit \u201cTipping Point\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If 10 kids have COVID in an SA classroom, the entire class will be sent home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/fiveaa-sports-show-with-rowey-bicks\/roweys-sports-show-podcast-23-march-2022\/embed\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Rowey's Sports Show Podcast - 23 March 2022\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a report in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Advertiser<\/a> on Thursday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Whole school classes will be sent home if 10 or more children catch Covid-19, the Education Department says.<\/p><p>It has revealed the \u201ctipping point\u201d for sending whole classrooms home as the Omicron variant continues to spread across the state, also counting swathes of children and family members as close or classroom contacts.<\/p><p>The department told The Advertiser if there were five cases of the coronavirus in a classroom, every student would be required to get a PCR test, and if an additional five tested positive, the whole class would be sent home for several days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some big changes on the way for how schools in South Australia cope with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> could see entire classrooms sent home. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ollie_haig?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ollie_haig<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/9News?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#9News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J27LGvBPW9\">pic.twitter.com\/J27LGvBPW9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; 9News Adelaide (@9NewsAdel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/9NewsAdel\/status\/1506716179557228552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>FIVEAA BREAKFAST LIVE STREAM &#8211; THU 24 MAR &#8211; WATCH HERE:<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1395FIVEAA%2Fvideos%2F351855323545900%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If 10 kids have COVID in an SA classroom, the entire class will be sent home. 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