School closure in Tuscany due to covid: in about 50 municipalities lessons were suspended, this is where

Florence, March 5, 2021 – Taking into account the closure of schools in the twenty municipalities of the province of Pistoia, which is still the red zone, around thirty municipalities will close schools from Monday, March 8 to Sunday 14. A total common fifty. He says so Eugenio Giani connected with citizens live on Facebook to explain what are the criteria for closing schools in Tuscany. In all the institutes we will proceed with the now known dad, distance education, with lessons via computer from home.

The dpcm allows the Regions to close schools

The new dpcm allows regional presidents to close schools in those municipalities in which there are more than 250 infections per week per 100,000 inhabitants. In these municipalities, the committee created by Giani for the closure of schools assesses situation by situation and decides on the closure. To interrupt the lessons, in municipalities where infections are overcome, important reasons are needed, such as circulation of variants from the covid or suddenly worsening infections. In Tuscany, decisions are made by Ceps, the School Emergency and Safety Committee, created by Giani himself.

In 76 municipalities there are more than 250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants

“There are 76 municipalities in which there are more than 250 infections for every one hundred thousand inhabitants,” says Giani-. There are not a few, about a third. “

This is where schools will be closed

Pending final decisions for all, schools will certainly be closed a Civitella Paganico, in the province of Grosseto already Marciano della Chiana, in the province of Arezzo. The figure of 250 infections on one hundred thousand inhabitants was widely exceeded even in three municipalities of the Pistoiese, that is to say Lamporecchio, Massa and Cozzile and Ponte Buggianese. Here the schools were still closed, the red zone having been extended to the entire province of Pistoia. The schools definitely closed a Castelnuovo Berardenga (in the province of Siena) already Certaldo, in the province of Florence, where sixty kindergarten children tested positive. They also closed institutes in Lucignano in the province of Arezzo. For the provincial capitals, schools will certainly close next week in the municipality of Arezzo and in Siena, where Mayor De Mossi has already introduced the ordinance. They also closed schools in municipalities that have already been declared a red zone: chickpea flour cake, in the province of Livorno and Castellina Marittima, in the province of Pisa.

Here are the quietest areas

“The quietest areas in terms of contagions – Giani lists – are Grosseto with 129 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, Livorno with 141, Pisa with 171 and Florence with 176 where, however, there is Empoli, which is quite problematic. Then there is Massa 210, Lucca 231 and Arezzo 233 which, if the data deteriorates, they run the risk of being seen in the red from next week. Finally Prato 250 and Siena 252, in the limit, and then the province of Pistoia with 378 “.