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Covid 19 information

Dear Parents / Carers,

We hope you are keeping well. It is extremely important you understand what to do if you, your child or someone in your household displays symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19).

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Symptoms of coronavirus are:

a high temperature
a new cough where you keep on coughing. This means coughing a lot for more than an hour or three or more episodes of coughing in a day
Losing or there being a change to your sense of smell or taste

If you, your child or anyone in your household have any coronavirus symptoms:

The person with symptoms must stay at home for 10 days

Please do not send your child to college, please do let us know via phone or email (do not visit the college)

Do not go to a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital unless it is an emergency

Book a test as soon as possible

To do this visit the NHS website (https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/testing-and-tracing/) or call 119

If you, your child or anyone in your household tests positive:

You will be contacted by text, email or phone and will be asked to provide information about the people you have been close to recently.

After 10 days if you still have a high temperature, you must stay home and away from people until you feel better.

After 10 days if you only have a cough and/or loss of sense of taste or smell you don’t have to stay home and away from people any more.

Everyone else you share your house with must still stay home because they might have caught the virus but not be showing symptoms yet.

They must stay at home for 14 days from the first day you felt poorly even if they feel well