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A girl tested positive for coronavirus in a kindergarten in Pavia. The case occurred in the “March 8” nursery in the Lombard provincial capital, where the anti-contagion protocol foreseen in these cases was activated. The Pavia Health Protection Agency, in agreement with the municipal administration, ordered that the entire class the child attended be placed in fiduciary quarantine for 14 days: a total of another 13 children aged 4 and 5 years and the teachers who came into contact with them, who will all be swabbed in turn. The section frequented by the infected child was subjected to sanitation and disinfection. There will be no consequences for children who attend other classes: the rest of the kindergarten, in fact, will remain open regularly. According to the information leaked so far, the girl infected with the virus is 4 years old: she was subjected to a swab by the pediatrician, contacted by the girl’s mother, because she had a fever.
“We immediately activated the process with Ats Pavía to take charge of the problem,” Alessandro Cantoni, municipal education councilor, told the Ansa agency. The school management, teachers and families of the 14 school children were contacted. section in which the case occurred. ”The rest of the school, Cantoni explained, remained open as sections are expected to be in stable groups.
What happens in case of positive in kindergarten or school?
The return of children to kindergarten and among the school desks keeps parents, teachers and all those engaged in ensuring that the health system does not go crazy for the possible – and as in the case of Pavia – reports concrete positivity among students. The head of infectious diseases of Ats Milano, Marino Faccini, explained to Fanpage.it that if there were suspected cases, only the child or child with symptoms will be quarantined. Only in the case of positivity will the whole class be isolated. Isolation should go from 14 days to 10-7 days for all children and teachers in contact with that class. “We must wait for the result of the swab and if it is negative, everything continues normally. There is no expulsion of anyone ”. Starting next week, according to what has been learned from Fanpage.it, a path of quick swabs should be created for children of kindergartens and students of Lombard schools: sanitary points in which to make swabs that will result in half a day.
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