Rishard Khan

rishard.khan@guardian.co.tt

There are 316 con­firmed COVID-19 cas­es from the na­tions' schools since pri­ma­ry school chil­dren re­turned to phys­i­cal class­es on April 19. 

Re­veal­ing the fig­ures for last week on be­half of the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion was Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh at Wednes­day's me­dia con­fer­ence. He said be­tween April 25 and 29 there were 288 con­firmed cas­es be­tween staff and stu­dents of 243 schools. The min­is­ter was un­able to break down the cas­es by ed­u­ca­tion lev­el be­cause he was not giv­en it. 

Last Mon­day, Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly told Guardian Me­dia there were 28 cas­es record­ed across 16 schools by the end of the first week. 

To­geth­er these make 316 con­firmed cas­es. How­ev­er, with­out a de­tailed break­down of the schools where cas­es were re­port­ed it will be in­ac­cu­rate to com­bine the num­ber of schools af­fect­ed be­tween the first two weeks. 

Guardian Me­dia has been un­able to get a list of af­fect­ed schools from the Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion. De­spite this, a list of schools was com­piled based on re­ports com­ing from par­ents. 

Schools with un­con­firmed re­ports of stu­dents or staff test­ing pos­i­tive for COVID-19 or be­ing quar­an­tined:

Pri­ma­ry Schools:

Av­o­cat Vedic Pri­ma­ry School
Broth­ers Pres­by­ter­ian Pri­ma­ry School 
Clarke Rochard Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School
Curepe Pres­by­ter­ian Pri­ma­ry School 
El Do­ra­do North Hin­du Pri­ma­ry School
Fe­lic­i­ty Hin­du Pri­ma­ry School 
Gand­hi Memo­r­i­al Vedic School
Gas­par­il­lo Hin­du School
Grant Memo­r­i­al Pri­ma­ry School 
Guaico Pres­by­ter­ian Pri­ma­ry School
Hap­py Hill Hin­du Pri­ma­ry School 
Jor­dan Hill Pres­by­ter­ian Pri­ma­ry School
Mafek­ing Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School 
Mara­bel­la Al-Hu­da Ed­u­ca­tion Pri­ma­ry School 
Mil­ton Hall Methodist Pri­ma­ry School
Mon­key Town Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School
Palmyra Hin­du Pri­ma­ry School
Pe­nal Dayanand Memo­r­i­al Vedic School
Pe­nal Pres­by­ter­ian Pri­ma­ry School 
Pe­nal Rock Road SDMS Hin­du Pri­ma­ry School 
Preysal Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School
Princes Town AS­JA Pri­ma­ry School 
Princes Town Pres­by­ter­ian Pri­ma­ry School
Robert Vil­lage Hin­du Pri­ma­ry School 
Rosary Boys' RC Pri­ma­ry School 
San Fer­nan­do AS­JA Pri­ma­ry School 
San Fer­nan­do Girls' Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School
San Fer­nan­do TML Pri­ma­ry School 
San Juan Boys' RC Pri­ma­ry School
San Juan Girls' RC Pri­ma­ry School
Scar­bor­ough RC Pri­ma­ry School
South Oropouche Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School
Spring Vil­lage Hin­du Pri­ma­ry School
St He­le­na Hin­du Pri­ma­ry School
St Joseph TML Pri­ma­ry School
Tul­sa Trace Hin­du Pri­ma­ry School 
Tu­na­puna Hin­du Pri­ma­ry School
Tu­na­puna Pres­by­ter­ian Pri­ma­ry School, 
Up­per Cara­pichaima Pres­by­ter­ian Pri­ma­ry School 
Up­per Cu­mu­to Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School 

Sec­ondary Schools: 

Bar­rack­pore AS­JA Girls' Sec­ondary School 
Iere High School
Lak­sh­mi Girls’ Hin­du Col­lege
Mu­cu­rapo East Sec­ondary School
Na­pari­ma Girls' High School
Pa­lo Seco Sec­ondary School
Pleas­antville High School
Rio Claro West Sec­ondary