Two first-year school teachers in Indonesia tested positive for COVID-19, prompting mass swab-testing of 800 students to prevent an outbreak.

The incident took place in the city of Padang, after the two teachers were tested positive on February 14.

The mass swab-testing began with 500 students being tested on February 15, and another 300 on February 17.

The principal, Dewi Anggraini, stated "The school was forced to temporarily stop face-to-face learning and was switched back to learning the online system."

The Padang health office identified one more positive case from the mass-testing, as a female student tested positive.

two first-year school teachers number 10 Padang city were confirmed positive for Covid-19.

As a result, 800 students at the school were sampled by health workers to break the chain of the spread of Covid-19 and overcome it to become a new covid-19 cluster in Padang City.

The principal, Dewi Anggraini, said that "the school was forced to temporarily stop face-to-face learning and was switched back to learning the online system" .

Based on preliminary data from the Padang City Health Office on February 17, 2021, the addition of the positive cases increased by one person, namely school students.

until now the health office has recorded three positive people for Covid-19 in one location of the 10 junior high school in Padang city, two teachers and one female student