Escuela, Azzolina: “Since the beginning of the year, 2,348 positive students”

10/10/2020 Health, Italy



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Since the beginning of the school year to October 3 there were 2,348 students positive results in COVID-19, 402 teachers, 144 ata operators and non-teaching staff. The numbers were provided by the Minister of Education, Lucía Azzolina. “There are and will be cases of positivity for the virus, it is inevitable – said the head of the ministry of Viale Trastevere – but measurements that we have introduced allow us to identify them promptly, including asymptomatic cases that might otherwise get out of control. ‘

Infections increase and with them the anxiety and concern of parents, teachers, principals. However, only a minority hope to return to distance education: presence, sociability and human relationships are considered by all too important for the growth of children and young people. A reference to the need to keep schools open, as well as factories and offices, which implies a greater responsibility for people, as highlighted by the head of state, Sergio Mattarella, today in conversation at the Quirinale with the Greek president Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

Until last September 26 there were almost 2,000 infected people in the school, including teachers, students and custodians: unfortunately, the numbers are increasing rapidly, from north to south of Italy. «Difficult situations in schools are growing significantly. These are days full of concerned requests from staff, from families in a confusion of contradictory messages that increase suspicions ”, says Pino Turi, who directs Uil Scuola and asks the Ministry of Education to provide, with a fixed periodicity, tracking numbers which was activated in schools to provide real-time data. School leaders, as more cases and institutions become involved, are also concerned that any responsibility falls on them.

The criminal shield that they had requested and which had been provided by an amendment, was never introduced. Udir’s union threatens to strike: “Infections among young people are increasing and the situation in the Institutes runs the risk of becoming unmanageable. The government must intervene with a clear rule in the next budget law at the end of the month, ”says Marcello Pacifico, president of the union.

Paola Serafin, head of the school administrators of the CISL, also explains that the directors want the penal shield to be able to attend with less concern the daily cases of contagion of Convid-19 in their schools: “Obviously there was no political will to Approve it.” On the other hand, the position of the FLC CGIL has more nuances. Roberta Fanfarillo, union director in charge of the school directors of the CGIL, explains that “the director who puts into practice the indications of the CTS and the ISS regarding the development of infection prevention and management, you may consider having fulfilled all their responsibilities relative to contagion “.

Rather Fanfarillo adds that “what leaders are asking today is greater coordination with ASL prevention departments: often the obligations that the ISS assigns to ASL are often discharged on schools and school administrators” . However, everyone rejects the idea of ​​going back to distance education unless no new and dreaded crash is expected.

“Integrated teaching must remain an extreme option, we cannot transform it into ordinary ones”, says the leader of the Flc CGIL, Francesco Sinopoli. “It is absolutely necessary to avoid closing the school,” said Walter Ricciardi, a consultant to the Minister of Health. While Ranieri Guerra, WHO, explained that the circulation of the virus worries, more than schools, I public transport and the move.

“The school is responding strongly, but it is important to maintain the entire supply chain up to the house,” also warned Silvio Brusaferro of the ISS, an Institute that registered today, in the usual weekly monitoring, a slight increase in outbreaks in the that transmission could have occurred in the school setting (2.5% of all new outbreaks). “The schools will remain open, as they should be,” said the Undersecretary of Health, Sandra Zampa. Meanwhile, the first fines are falling: in Sassari the local police have imposed dozens of them on students who chatted without a mask huddled in front of their school or on the banks.