WA schools quarantine students to stop SARS

A number of Western Australian boarding schools will consider placing students returning from overseas holidays into quarantine……..

A number of Western Australian boarding schools will consider placing students returning from overseas holidays into quarantine……..A number of Western Australian boarding schools will consider placing students returning from overseas holidays into quarantine to reduce the risk of a SARS outbreak.The Association of Independent Schools of WA says a number of schools may also insist on medical tests for the severe acute respiratory syndrome.The school holidays run for a fortnight, beginning next week.The association’s executive director Audrey Jackson says the directives are designed to protect students, teachers and parents.”The advice is changing and so they need to be preparing students for the worst, if you like, which might be ten days quarantine, and knowing that that may change if there is better advice from the Commonwealth Department of Health,” she said.(Source: ABC Online; Wednesday, April 9, 2003. 9:50am (AEST))