A Wiltshire school has issued urgent advice as a group of students return home from northern Italy.
In a letter to parents Highworth Warneford School has advised that students, and staff, should not attend school if they display any of the coronavirus flu-like symptoms.
The group of around 50 were in northern Italy but it is not clear whether anyone returning from the school trip has shown symptoms at this stage.
Authorities in Italy have confirmed more than 300 cases and 12 deaths there.
Public Health England’s advice was that the school should stay open, although other schools in very similar circumstances have closed by choice in other parts of the UK, according to BBC News.
A guidance poster, distributed to schools by the Department for Education, urges students to “tell a
member of staff and let them know if you have travelled to any other countries in the last 14 days”.
View or download the official poster on the Government website here.
Lawn Manor Academy and Royal Wootton Bassett Academy both have groups of staff and students who have returned from Italy this week. They are said to have issued similar advice.
