Dan Andrews reacts to primary school teacher who refused Covid test
Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has reacted to a kindergarten worker who refused to take a COVID-19 test, despite working on the same site as a child who has tested positive to the virus.
The staff member was meant to be tested a week ago after a student at Glenroy West Primary School, which is on the same site as the kindergarten, tested positive to COVID-19.
However, the staff member continued to work at the kindergarten for eight hours at a time between August 6 and 12 and refused to be tested.
When asked about the situation, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews commented that “millions of Victorians have given so much” since the start of the pandemic.
“If you’re asked to test because there’s a sense you may have the virus, but also look after the safety of people you’ve been with, some of whom might be little kids, I don’t know if that’s such a big ask, is it?”
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As a result, at least children and their families have been asked to isolate for 14 days.
Since the student’s positive result, 45 infections have been linked to the school outbreak, with dozens of active cases identified at the primary school.
“As we always do, particularly with a high number of children we’ve had involved in these outbreaks over the last couple of weeks it will continue to be a Tier 1 exposure site,” COVID Commander Jeroen Weimar said.