The Indian High School in Oud Metha has assured parents and said sanitisation work has been carried out after a 16-year-old pupil contracted the virus.
The child was infected by her parent who had travelled overseas.
Dozens of pupils at the school were tested for coronavirus last Thursday after the case was reported.
Parents and teachers at the school said the tests were conducted on pupils who had been on the same school bus and in the same classroom as the patient.
A thorough deep clean has been done and the school is following proper health and safety precautions
Concerned parents and teachers told The National they were worried whether stricter measures such as home isolation for two weeks were required for pupils who had been in contact with the teenager.
As a precaution, all three schools run by the Indian High School Group closed a day early on March 5, though spring break commenced at UAE's schools and universities on March 8.
"A thorough deep clean and disinfecting has been done and the school is following proper health and safety precautions as instructed by the Ministry of Health and Prevention, Dubai Municipality and Dubai Health Authority. All necessary measures have been taken to ensure the safety of our students and staff," the school said in a statement.
"With a lot being said about the epidemic – Coronavirus or Covid-19, we understand your family members and you may have concerns and queries about the safety of your child.
“We assure you that [our] schools are following all the necessary health and safety precautions instructed by the relevant authorities.
“We have taken all the necessary measures to ensure safety of all."
The school cancelled all exams scheduled from March 5, to avoid panic among pupils and parents.
“We took this necessary step to ensure no one feels vulnerable about misleading messages circulating on social media,” it said.
Board examinations for grade 10 and 12 have not been cancelled and would go ahead as scheduled.
No re-examinations will be conducted as internal examinations have been cancelled.
Pupils will be graded and promoted on a pro rata basis.
Their portfolio, and performance in assessments and enrichment activities, will also be assessed.
After the case of the Indian High School, a 17-year-old male Emirati pupil, who showed no symptoms, also tested positive for Covid-19 on March 6.
It is not known which school the pupil goes to.
Schools and universities across the country have been closed for a month from March 8 as part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus.
Spring break, which was due to begin on March 29, will instead begin on March 8 and last two weeks.
Distance learning has been introduced during the remaining two weeks, with pupils learning from home.
Government schools will run a home-teaching programme called Learn from Afar from March 22 to April 5.
Private schools have set up their own distance-learning programmes or expanded existing e-learning tools such as Google Classroom, ClassDojo and Seesaw, to cover the school day.
A "sterilisation programme" for all educational facilities will be carried out in all schools, buses and universities during the break, as per the directives of the Ministry of Education in the UAE.
Tearful appearance
Chancellor Rachel Reeves set markets on edge as she appeared visibly distraught in parliament on Wednesday.
Legislative setbacks for the government have blown a new hole in the budgetary calculations at a time when the deficit is stubbornly large and the economy is struggling to grow.
She appeared with Keir Starmer on Thursday and the pair embraced, but he had failed to give her his backing as she cried a day earlier.
A spokesman said her upset demeanour was due to a personal matter.
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Attacks on Egypt’s long rooted Copts
Egypt’s Copts belong to one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, with Mark the Evangelist credited with founding their church around 300 AD. Orthodox Christians account for the overwhelming majority of Christians in Egypt, with the rest mainly made up of Greek Orthodox, Catholics and Anglicans.
The community accounts for some 10 per cent of Egypt’s 100 million people, with the largest concentrations of Christians found in Cairo, Alexandria and the provinces of Minya and Assiut south of Cairo.
Egypt’s Christians have had a somewhat turbulent history in the Muslim majority Arab nation, with the community occasionally suffering outright persecution but generally living in peace with their Muslim compatriots. But radical Muslims who have first emerged in the 1970s have whipped up anti-Christian sentiments, something that has, in turn, led to an upsurge in attacks against their places of worship, church-linked facilities as well as their businesses and homes.
More recently, ISIS has vowed to go after the Christians, claiming responsibility for a series of attacks against churches packed with worshippers starting December 2016.
The discrimination many Christians complain about and the shift towards religious conservatism by many Egyptian Muslims over the last 50 years have forced hundreds of thousands of Christians to migrate, starting new lives in growing communities in places as far afield as Australia, Canada and the United States.
Here is a look at major attacks against Egypt's Coptic Christians in recent years:
November 2: Masked gunmen riding pickup trucks opened fire on three buses carrying pilgrims to the remote desert monastery of St. Samuel the Confessor south of Cairo, killing 7 and wounding about 20. IS claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 26, 2017: Masked militants riding in three all-terrain cars open fire on a bus carrying pilgrims on their way to the Monastery of St. Samuel the Confessor, killing 29 and wounding 22. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.
April 2017: Twin attacks by suicide bombers hit churches in the coastal city of Alexandria and the Nile Delta city of Tanta. At least 43 people are killed and scores of worshippers injured in the Palm Sunday attack, which narrowly missed a ceremony presided over by Pope Tawadros II, spiritual leader of Egypt Orthodox Copts, in Alexandria's St. Mark's Cathedral. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks.
February 2017: Hundreds of Egyptian Christians flee their homes in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, fearing attacks by ISIS. The group's North Sinai affiliate had killed at least seven Coptic Christians in the restive peninsula in less than a month.
December 2016: A bombing at a chapel adjacent to Egypt's main Coptic Christian cathedral in Cairo kills 30 people and wounds dozens during Sunday Mass in one of the deadliest attacks carried out against the religious minority in recent memory. ISIS claimed responsibility.
July 2016: Pope Tawadros II says that since 2013 there were 37 sectarian attacks on Christians in Egypt, nearly one incident a month. A Muslim mob stabs to death a 27-year-old Coptic Christian man, Fam Khalaf, in the central city of Minya over a personal feud.
May 2016: A Muslim mob ransacks and torches seven Christian homes in Minya after rumours spread that a Christian man had an affair with a Muslim woman. The elderly mother of the Christian man was stripped naked and dragged through a street by the mob.
New Year's Eve 2011: A bomb explodes in a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria as worshippers leave after a midnight mass, killing more than 20 people.
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