COVID-19

      UPDATE

9 June 2020

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Hi Country Footsteps Whanau,

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I am sure you were as pleased as I was to hear the Prime Minister’s announcement about moving to Alert Level 1. For us, there will be no major changes to what we are doing and our preschool continues to be safe to attend, including any staff and children who are considered more vulnerable to COVID-19. We have a good cleaning routine in place, people who are sick are staying at home and we continue to encourage good hygiene practices.

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There are key public health measures - Golden Rules - for everyone in New Zealand to follow. For our preschool this means:

• If children are sick, they should stay home (phone Health line or their GP and get tested if they have cold or flu symptoms).

• Continue to regularly wash and dry hands, sneeze and cough into elbows.

• Soap, water and the ability to dry hands should be provided in bathrooms.

• We will regularly disinfect shared surfaces.

• Support contact tracing efforts by displaying QR Code posters for the NZ COVID Tracer App.

• Stringent self-isolation of those who display relevant symptoms of COVID-19, test positive for COVID-19, have been in close contact with someone who tests positive for COVID-19, or have been overseas in the last 14 days – Ministry of Health information for self- isolation.

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We are supporting contact tracing by having QR code posters at our entrances – so if you haven’t already downloaded the NZ COVID Tracer app the Ministry of Health’s NZ- COVID Tracer app page has information to help you do that.

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If you have any queries, please feel free to contact your child’s teacher via Educa or email.  Our staff are available between 8:00am – 3:00pm every day.

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Thank you for your continued support and understanding.

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Ngā mihi

Chantel van Vollenstee

Centre Manager