Principal wants return of contact tracing after 21 students test positive for Covid

The National Public Health Emergency Team says that child-to-child transmission remains 'uncommon' in school settings, and has so far rejected calls to re-introduce contact tracing. 

A principal of a Deis school who spent the mid-term break contacting parents as 21 students tested positive for Covid-19 has called for contact tracing in schools to be reinstated.

Fiona Morley, principal of Clonburris National School, Clondalkin, Dublin, told the Irish Examiner that she spent every day last week contact tracing after parents advised the school of positive cases.