A Wishaw college had the very best COVID-19 outbreak throughout faculties in Scotland in line with official data.
St Aidan’s Excessive Faculty had the had the very best outbreak with 110 pupils contaminated in August of final yr in line with Public Well being Scotland.
Two different Lanarkshire faculties had been named within the high 10.
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St Maurice’s Excessive in Cumbernauld had the fifth highest outbreak with 91 infections in August final yr whereas Uddingston Grammar was ninth within the desk with 81 infections in September 2021.
The Freedom of Data request by the Each day Document discovered that just about 300,000 college youngsters examined constructive for COVID because the virus outbreak.
The highest 100 outbreaks had been included within the FOI which featured 18 outbreaks at excessive faculties in each North and South Lanarkshire .
A number of faculties featured on the checklist twice together with St Aidan’s in Wishaw, St Maurice’s in Cumbernauld, Uddingston Grammar and Duncanrigg Excessive in East Kilbride.
Different faculties included within the high 100 had been Calderglen Excessive and St Andrew’s and St Bride’s in East Kilbride, Stonelaw Excessive in Rutherglen, Coatbridge Excessive, Trinity Excessive in Rutherglen, St Ambrose Excessive in Coatbridge and Cardinal Newman Excessive Faculty in Bellshill.
Public Well being Scotland mentioned there have been 825,420 pupils registered in Scotland throughout these previous two years, that means over one in three youngsters in Scotland has been contaminated.
The info as much as April 6, 2022, doesn't specify the place the an infection was acquired, or whether or not pupils had been current in class at any level of their sickness.
The FOI additionally revealed that there have been a whopping 6,491 events when a faculty in Scotland had a COVID outbreak, involving greater than 10 pupils.
These 6491 outbreaks occurred in 1,308 particular person faculties within the nation.
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