Critical Week Before School Starts: What Role Will Mutated Virus Cases Play?



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In a meeting to be held on Monday, between the Minister of Health Nikis Kerameos with experts from the Ministry of Health, it is expected to finalize the measures that will take effect from the morning of January 11 at School groups about the return of teachers and students.

The government’s decision to open the schools on January 11 is considered final, as announced by the government spokesperson. Stelios Petsas. For this reason, a strict one-week closure was imposed, in order to stop the spread of the virus as much as possible and return students to their desks with greater security.


Skin for schools

Based on what was announced, all educational levels will be opened: kindergartens, elementary schools, gymnasiums and lyceums. According to information, the opening of schools will be done with strict rules, like the quick test for high school and possibly high school students, who tend to be more crowded.

It is observed that the government has already announced the implementation directed tests for older students, although there may be a gradual arrival and departure of younger students to avoid overcrowding between parents and guardians that children must go to or pick up from school.

Flurry of controls to comply with restrictions

At the same time in specific controls in areas of Attica With an overwhelmed epidemiological picture, in order to limit mobility and synchronicity, the Authorities proceed in the context of the return of strict closure.

The plan includes an increase in police blockades to restrict mobility, control for strict compliance with the traffic ban from 21: 00-05: 00, expulsion of citizens from squares and public places, but also patrols to avoid “click “and surveillance. churches.

According to SKAI, there are at least five areas that are in this phase under the “microscope”: these are Aspropyrgos, Zefyri, Ilion, Peristeri, Keratsini and Menidi.

Mosialos for schools: undo decision if we have data to collect

A different opinion was expressed by Elijah Mosialos talking to SKAI. The London School of Economics Professor of Health Policy said the decision to open schools should be “frozen” if epidemiological data to emerge on the 10th of the month show a burden.

“It just came to our attention then. The decision exists as a fact, I imagine, as long as the blockade that has now been extended has the desired results.” He specifically said and also wondered who could decide to open if it does not exist.

“I don’t think anyone can make such a decision with different facts. “Obviously this assessment that the opening of schools is a fact is based on another assessment that the closure, as it has been imposed, will have the desired results.” He even pointed out that if you don’t have them, you can’t insist on a policy that contradicts what is good to do.


Evening news bulletin Professor H. Mosialos at SKAI |  03/01/2021

Mutated virus cases

Another dimension that perhaps should be counted is the identification of the mutated strain of the coronavirus in our country.

The cases were identified during an inspection by the Institute for Medical and Biotechnological Research of the Academy of Athens. According to information from ANT1, the mutated strain was found in 4 cases of travelers who returned from Great Britain. The total number of travelers from Great Britain examined was six.

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“The four people recently traveled to Greece from Great Britain. They are in quarantine” dA Health Ministry official, who declined to be named, told Reuters.

Speaking to Alpha’s main newsletter, the Charalambos Gogos He did not confirm the existence of the mutated strain in our country, however, he stressed that this mutation is expected to also reach our country. “The mutated virus will have no borders, with the movements that occur from one country to another we will definitely have cases of the mutated virus throughout Europe and obviously there will be them in our country and it seems that such strains have already been detected” he said.

“The presence of a mutation in our country does not change the data. It is something to be expected. Of course we don’t know how far it has come. We have to look at the epidemiological data, that is, what is the dispersion and what was the effect of mobility and this may have consequences in the registration of its epidemiological parameters. “ concluded.

In any case, all data will be taken into account in tomorrow’s meeting of the Committee of Experts, where decisions related to the opening of schools will be made on January 11.

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