A college-branded mask "has become another addition to the college uniform". About 60 percent of students at the largely Pacific decile-1 Catholic boys' school in Māngere are now wearing either the college masks or their own masks, as mask-wearing spreads across many South Auckland schools. But several schools in South Auckland, where the latest Covid-19 "Auckland cluster" started, are now asking students to wear them. "We have requested them to wear masks, and there has been wonderful take-up," she said. Kia Aroha College principal Haley Milne said "the vast majority" of her students are wearing masks, "in class more so than outside".

Source: Otago Daily Times September 02, 2020 05:37 UTC