ZURICH – Students in the Swiss city of Basel falsify the positive Covid-19 results in an attempt to skip the school, leading to the entire class being quarantined, and now disciplinary action against the culprits after the hoax is discovered is.
Three Swiss students at Kirschgarten High School in Basel forged text messages from the Covid-19 contact tracking app in Switzerland.
As a result, about 25 classmates were confined to their homes for about ten days. Several teachers were also affected by the incident just before the spring break in March.
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“It’s not just a childish joke, it’s a serious incident,” Simon Thiriet, a spokesman for Basel’s education department, told Blick.
The school intends to bring criminal charges for falsifying ‘health-relevant documents’, although it does not intend to suspend them. Thiriet said students were in a ‘difficult situation’ due to the pandemic, but that did not excuse the triumph.