“I will not let them go back to school”, writes President Michele Emiliano in a message to mothers who ask what will happen next Thursday, when Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s decree and the latest ordinance on schools signed by the Governor of Apulia expire . The summary is clear: the formula must be a new ordinance substantially identical to the old one. If the new decree of Rome confirmed distance education for secondary school until January, Emiliano would replicate the more restrictive provision that allows families of primary and secondary students to choose between face-to-face teaching and lessons at home. Therefore, schools must continue to ensure integrated digital learning at least until Christmas.
This seems to be the most likely scenario that the school board will face tomorrow, convened with the leaders of the school’s regional office. There is a certain fact: nobody wants to authorize everyone to return to jobs, at least until January: from December 4 to holidays after all, it only takes a couple of weeks. “Our approach does not change – confirms the director of the Health department, Vito Montanaro – We have many ideas and we are finalizing the guidelines to be disseminated.” The formulary It will contain some practical instructions for managers and teachers, uniforms, from the news for projection. At the moment the system of antigenic swabs, or rapid tests, has been started, but there are no channels dedicated to schools, as requested by pediatricians and directors. “A national agreement has been signed that will soon be operational -explains Montanaro- and that will allow doctors and pediatricians to perform antigen tests in their studies.”
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Involve a series of actors and subjects trained to do so, also through prevention departments – Montanaro anticipates – with initiatives extended to voluntary organizations that have doctors and nurses, for example ”.
The Italian Federation of Pediatricians asks once again that some Asl clinics be dedicated to schools, with days and hours reserved for students. “Otherwise, with the arrival of the flu, chaos will be unleashed – recalls Vice President Luigi Nigri – because pediatricians will be able to rub themselves in the studies only in two specific cases: positive contacts close to ten days for school readmission and mild contacts Both, however, are asymptomatic. ” Children with symptoms (the same as those of the flu) will not even be able to be examined in the studies, unless after a negative swab: hence the request of the Federation to create dedicated clinics, without obstructing the work of the Usca . The table will also discuss transportation. The Region has carried out a census of the busiest routes and would have a plan. But the confrontation with the schools to stagger the schedules never happened, as
