About 2,000 people, including 1,600 children, were quarantined after two cases of the Omicron variant were discovered at one of the facilities of the prestigious Ecole internationale de Genève, the Swiss health authorities announced today.
“These two cases had a close family relationship with a person who was diagnosed positive and returned from a trip to South Africa,” said the health authorities of the canton of Vaud, where the private school, and the canton of Geneva are located, in a joint statement. .
According to authorities, “this is the first measure of this scope”, after the presence of Omicron in Switzerland was confirmed this week.
“So far we have not seen any infections in the wider area of Geneva or Bo. “This element forces us today, for precautionary reasons, to decide to impose strict measures”, the authorities clarify.
“It is necessary to curb the introduction of camouflage in our territories. “Once it is recorded, it is also necessary to reduce transmission to Switzerland as much as possible.”
The quarantine will last 10 days and students as well as teachers at the Satnière facility near Geneva will have to undergo a PCR test. These facilities host an elementary school and a high school.
Their families should also be screened as part of the Omicron variant survey, which was first recorded in South Africa in late November and has since been identified in dozens of countries.
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