The Ministry of Health is now surveilling 90 primary contacts of a child who recently tested positive for COVID-19.
The child tested positive overnight after another member of the family also tested positive for the virus earlier this week.
The child, a student expected to sit the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) examination, attended classes for three days at the Maraval RC School last week despite exhibiting symptoms for the virus.
As a result, 90 primary contacts which includes 76 other children have been notified of the need to home-quarantine and will be tested for the virus if they begin showing symptoms.
The school has since been closed.
This child is one of three children in a household of eight people. All three children and two adults have tested positive for the virus overnight.
