A second positive in the same school in Rafelbunyol (Valencia) raises the concern of parents

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The management of

, in the province of Valencia, reported this Thursday late in the afternoon a second case of positive for Covid-19 among its students, after which it already forced to confine a score of students from a Primary classroom, as EL MUNDO has learned.

This second case has occurred in a nursery classroom and, according to the center, it would be a 5-year-old student from the same family unit as the previous one, which was confirmed on Monday.

Therefore, the search would lead directly to the same family, who decided to take the two little ones on the first day of school after a weekend in which they would have been in direct contact with other infected.

Some parents in the town, of about 9,000 inhabitants, had already decided on Tuesday not to take their children to school after the first case of a girl with fever and diarrhea was known on Monday afternoon, later confirmed as positive for coronavirus.

That day,

officially informed the management and urged that all families be informed.

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is, together with the

, one of the two public centers that the town has, in addition to a Secondary and Baccalaureate IES.

Around 1,000 kindergarten and primary school children attend classes each day in both centers.

Specifically,

, which was inaugurated last year, is a center that has six classrooms for Infants and twelve for Primary.

"Unfortunately we have to report a second positive case of Covid in the center," says the statement from the school's management.

The protocol has forced to confine the whole class, the teacher and the dining room monitor.

All of them will undergo the PCR test to check if there has been any contagion, as already happened with the other Primary group.

"From the teaching team we want to send a lot of encouragement to the affected families, hoping that soon we can all be together again at school," he says.

When the first case was known, the mayor, the socialist

, already stressed that the city council was in coordination with the Ministry of Education and Health and with the management team of the center "to guarantee safety in the classrooms."

In addition, he launched "a message of tranquility to all the families whose sons and daughters attend the educational centers of the municipality and encourage our neighbors to continue complying with the indications set by the competent health authorities."

The second case in just a week has increased parental concern.

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After the first case,

, highlighted the response "without alarmism" from the parents of the student's classmates.

In statements to Efe, Arroyo explained that the infected girl began the course on Monday with the rest of the students but "did not present symptoms."

It was in the afternoon when she felt bad and her parents took her to the emergency room and her positive was confirmed.

"On Tuesday morning they called me from the health center telling me that a positive case had come out in the center and the Health protocol had to be implemented," explained the teacher.

"It is a bubble group from Primary, which also wears a mask in the classroom."

Arroyo, at that time, thanked the parents for "trust" because the rest of the students "have attended the center regularly and there has been no decrease in attendance."

"They have shown a lot of confidence in us," he said, despite admitting the uncertainty that will remain "until the results of the tests are known."

However, he stressed that when he spoke with the families "there was no one who was excessively alarmed, they all gave him the right measure of what the news is."

She added: "I am a mother and I put myself in their situation and it is complicated, but there was a very good and calm reaction."

One of the mothers at the center, however, recognized that there is "concern and fear" because "it is a situation that is getting out of hand."

In any case, he added, "we must be responsible and know that what is happening is inevitable and I do not think it will go beyond what we know."

He also commented that he "does not" consider "not taking his son to school:" You just have to see him these three days. They are six months without school, he is 6 years old and he needs to come. "

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