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am 13 thousand he teachers results positive to the serological test for coronavirus, a very high number that could compromise the restart of schools to lack of teachers, since they will not be able to take the service until they have tested negative.
At the moment they have been tested on 500 thousand teachers and school staff, namely 50% of the total, and of these 2.6% were positive, said Tg1. The count was carried out by Domenico Arcuri, the commissioner for the health emergency.
13 thousand teachers positive for coronavirus
After the start of the campaign aimed at evaluating teachers, 13,000 teachers tested positive for the coronavirus. However, those from Lazio are not counted in this figure, as the Region has decided to carry out the tests independently. They were distributed in total 2 million tests in the different institutes present in the national territory, the Lombardy At the moment it is the region that has evaluated the most teachers, on the 76% of the teaching staff, while the Sardinia, butt, just the 5%.
Arcuri reassured, stating that by September 24 it is estimated that they will be subjected to the test about 60-70% of teachers. Currently, the delays are caused by the difficulty of finding doctors who will submit teachers to serology. The Deputy Minister of Health, Pier Paolo Sileri stated that:
“Moral suasion has to be strengthened to get the tests done, but the school 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 ”.
School will resume on a regular basis.
The high number of positive teachers raised fears that the school’s reopening could be postponed due to lack of staff, however Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said it is “A critical element but does not alter the project of Back to school: we keep chasing him “.
The execution of the serological test has also been the subject of some critics, firstly by the virologist Andrea Crisanti, according to who is one “Inappropriate measure”, specifying that it would have been better to swab immediately. Crisanti also talks about temperature measurement within the school, a rule that is currently not contained in the MIUR guidelines. For the virologist, this procedure would be essential: “I have tried to push for temperature measurement in school and that would encourage families to measure it better. Let’s imagine 8 million families using different detectors “.
