Stomach bug closes school in Varberg – 90 children ill

Furubergsskolan in Varberg Municipality remained closed on Friday afternoon after around 90 children fell ill with a stomach bug. A municipality is the local authority responsible, among other things, for compulsory schooling. Already on Wednesday morning, around 40 pupils were at home sick, and on Thursday, 70 pupils were ill in the morning and around 90 at lunchtime, according to the school principal.

The school contacted the infection control authority, which urged that the premises be sanitized. The service management said that sanitization would take half a day, and the school decided to close before lunch on Friday. The school is open as usual again and hopes that the sanitization will be sufficient so that no more children become infected over the weekend. Hallands Nyheter was the first to report the outbreak. SVT Nyheter Halland