“Masks should also be worn on the counter”

Published on: 03/09/2020 8:44 AM

In school, children must wear the masks even when they are sitting at the desk.. The virologist is convinced of this Andrea Crisanti, Director of Microbiology at the University of Padua, among the parents of the Venetian model on tampon handling for Covid-19 in the first phase of the coronavirus emergency.

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“The masks are useful and they work,” the expert explained today to ‘SkyTg24’. If students “keep everyone quiet for hours, it’s okay to let them take it off while they’re sitting,” he observes, but I don’t see a class that is silent for hours on end. And if one has to talk, say ‘lend me the pen’, ‘hand me this’? Do we abolish social interaction in a classroom? Because when I speak – Crisanti warns – I actually make droplets, so if nothing else, the students should have a mask available and, if they speak, if they put it on “.

According to the virologist, “the capacity to supply 11 million masks has probably not yet been reached” to the school world, the government announced. “We will have to see if these masks really materialize every day,” he says. And in any case, “masks should also be worn sitting on desks – reiterates the expert – especially if a boy starts a conversation with another person. At school we talk. The school not only serves to learn, but it is also a social gym to interact with others. “