Is there a risk of not going back to the banks?

Almost 50% of the school staff, or 500 thousand teachers and non-teachers, carried out the serological test for Covid 19 and of these 2.6%, that is, around 13 thousand people, tested positive and will not take the service until the tampon fails. The data comes from the office of the commissioner for emergency Domenico Arcuri, which had started the campaign in recent weeks with the distribution of 2 million tests to schools.

The data, useless to turn it around, raises more than one question about the start of classes in three days: it was released by Tg1, and it does not even take into account the 200 thousand between teachers and non-teachers from Lazio since the region is operating independently. Until yesterday the most virtuous region was Lombardy, with 70% of the tests carried out while in last place was Sardinia with only 5% of the workforce that underwent the tests. In the next two weeks, the percentage is expected to increase nationally to 60-70%.

In some regions, the delay in exams was due to the difficulty of finding doctors to perform the test in their offices. The Deputy Minister of Health, Pierpaolo Sileri, regarding some school operators who do not want to undergo serological tests, made it clear that the path taken is the correct one: “Moral persuasion must be strengthened so that the tests are carried out, but the school it will reopen safely. In those circumstances in which the system is not yet ready, it will be possible to wait four or five days to leave safely. “

It does not mean 13 thousand positive people SARS-CoV-2Let’s clarify it again: being positive in the serological test means having been in contact with it previously. The 13,000 will now have to observe a period of isolation pending the swab result. Those who test negative before Monday will be able to return to work.

School, is going back to school really at risk?

So the first bell of the 2020-2021 school year was postponed in some realities? Vincenzo Bisbiglia and Natascia Ronchetti in Daily occurrence write that there is a risk of a hole: “In the meantime, a plan with a view to reopening is in the works. We will focus mostly on mass screening with” mobile labs. “So rapid antigenic swabs, rapid molecular tests and, Salivary tests from the end of September. It starts from Lazio and Veneto: if it works, the model will spread throughout Italy. “

It adds different screening techniques, from the serological test to the classic swab in the laboratory.

All regions have already developed operational guidelines for handling suspected cases. In case a student has body temperature above 37.5 ° or a symptom attributable to Covid, the school referrer must intervene immediately.

The student must be placed in a special area, identified by the institution, in the company of an adult protected by a mask, also used by the child if they are older than 6 years (but only if they tolerate it). If the student is positive, she will be able to return to school after two negative swabs.

“A few hours after the school reopened, they blocked everything: what now?”