Hokkaido and the Coronavirus

Number and location of Coronavirus cases as of February 24.

Yesterday evening, the Governor of Hokkaido in conjunction with the prefectural Board of Education sent an email to all the parents of school children on the island. So far, there have been 30 confirmed cases of the virus and 7 of those have had a direct connection with different schools.
The notification was about how families should take various preventive measures. Lots of washing of hands, liberal use of disinfectant spray, taking your child's temperature every morning and if your son or daughter should develop symptoms of a cold, keeping them out of school for 5 days.
Upon hearing this, Cian immediately started coughing.
Starting from tomorrow he has his end of year exams and well, let's just say that the boy's probable scores will be decidedly on the left side of the bell curve.
This morning he had a temperature of 63 degrees Celsius.
"So, I can't go to school", he triumphantly declared.
"No, you can't", I agreed. "Because you are now clinically dead. Here's a shovel. Go outside and bury yourself."
"Can I have breakfast first?"
"No, you're dead and dead people don't need food."
Hunger got the better of him and he admitted to holding the thermometer under the hot water tap. Something he learned from reading a Horrid Henry book.
Unfortunately, Horrid Henry doesn't feature on his English exam on Wednesday.