18 Mar 2020

Covid-19: Parent shares horror of finding out son's schoolmate infected

From Morning Report, 7:41 am on 18 March 2020

A Dunedin family has gone into isolation for two weeks as they anxiously wait to find out if more people at Logan Park High School may be infected with coronavirus.

The school is closed today and tomorrow while health officials track down contacts of a teenage student who caught the disease from his father.

The boy is the country's 12th case - the test results from another family member are not back yet.

Vicki is worried that her son who goes to Logan Park has now been exposed to Covid-19 putting at risk his brother who suffers from a serious lung condition.

He's a student at another school.

She told our news editor Mary Wilson about her reaction when the school emailed her about the latest case.