The closure applies for the rest of the week and on Thursday a new reconciliation will be made with Smittskydd Värmland.

Last week, the school had a few isolated covid cases, but after the weekend when it came to 14 infected students, the assessment is made that the school needs to be closed.

- According to Smittskydd Värmland, the spread of infection is large in Årjäng as a whole right now and therefore it was thought that it would be good to keep it closed for a while.

Three of the staff have fallen ill

So far, three of the staff have been infected with corona infection in recent weeks, and in the primary and middle school there have been a few isolated cases.

All infected in high school are in the eighth and ninth grade.

Whether the school can reopen next week depends on whether more people fall ill.

- We encourage parents to contact the school if their children are tested positive for Covid-19, says May Bjerklund.