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There are also cases like this, stories in which it is clear that the mass of information, rules and notices that have been relaunched for days still seems insufficient to guide families. A kindergarten in Brianza was warned by parents that their son tested positive only after three days in which the boy had regularly been to school despite symptoms that convinced them to take the test. The result confirmed the Covid infection, but after hours and hours of contact with classmates, all the children and teachers were sent home. Classes suspended, families in quarantine, all invited to go to the Monza hospital to undergo the test. A small disaster discovered on September 9, a week after the start, as the school had left seven days earlier.
Positive, first balance
When the first week of school is over, a first evaluation can be done. The first stories come from Turin to Palermo, the messages of mayors and directors on social networks. Especially the first numbers: 42 positive in Tuscany, 9 in Piedmont, 5 in Milan (and province) and one in Lodi for Lombardy. Twenty are students of a secondary school in the province of Oristano, in Sardinia. But the forced quarantines are also caused by teachers and operators who tested positive at the school that has already started. In Liguria, for now, two teachers and a two-year-old girl have been reported who had attended kindergarten for two days and is now hospitalized in the Gaslini pediatric hospital. Another child, two teachers, a helper and even two cooks end up on the list of those who have to make contact swabs. Four are the positives in Puglia, a school that closed on the first day.
Milan is closed
Six students tested positive for swabs in the metropolitan area yesterday Milan, where the little ones are affected. For now, there are no outbreaks but six new cases in six different schools: a child from a kindergarten, 4 children from four kindergartens, a secondary school teacher. All classes involved are isolated, while the lockdown has not been decided for the institution where the teacher was infected.
Piedmont monitors
the Piedmont He has chosen another path: before closing a classroom or an entire school where a positive case has occurred, it is preferable to monitor the situation. So far, nine students have tested positive for the swab, four Torino. A seven-year-old boy showed his first symptoms when leaving yesterday afternoon and his parents took him to one of the “school” hot spots installed in all hospitals to take samples from students. Another boy had a fever measured at school and the family was immediately alerted to come pick him up. At the moment, however, no closings have been decided, neither of the classes nor of an entire school. The hypothesis, for now, is that the infections occurred outside the institutions. Spacing was respected and the mask was used regularly. As long as there are no other cases in the same class, the watchword is strict monitoring. In any case, the follow-up is ongoing. Another group of four students from the Galileo Ferraris scientific high school in Torino never went to class. In the capital there was a first total closure: a small private bilingual nursery sent everyone home. The boy who tested positive had a brother in another class and it was difficult to reconnect. Better to be careful and postpone the departure.
High number in Tuscany
The number of Covid infections in is much higher Tuscany: 42 positives have been discovered since Monday the 14th. There were 1640 requests for swabs for children and youth from kindergarten through high school, 640 processed and reported, 309 for children in the 0-3 range, 290 for those between 3 and 6 years old , 384 for high school. Thirteen of the 42 were considered to have a low viral load and therefore not very contagious. In Lucca, the positivity of a child from the Felice Orsi di Porcari primary school forces 16 classmates, a teacher and a collaborator to quarantine.
In Monterotondo the news arrives via Facebook
The mayors also began to communicate the positive cases found through social networks. Happens to Monterotondo, in the province of Rome, where a student tested positive. The mayor communicates through Facebook, wishes the infected and reassures the families: “The positivity is in no way attributable to a contagion that took place within the school. Let’s stay calm. “Anyway, the whole class is home. On hold.
Puglia for the little ones
Puglia returns to school with the elders on the 24 Bari There are already two schools involved: the Fly Family mixed institute, a kindergarten and an elementary school attended by 120 children, has been closed since Monday the 14th after a volunteer from the public function had the result of the swab. No one enters until all 21 employees have finished. And forty children from the classes the volunteer attended and one of the parents are isolated. TO Bitritto, province of Bari, to cause the closure was a janitor: three colleagues and two teachers are isolated.
A sigh of relief in Friuli
In Friuli, fibrillation had involved students from Buonarroti di Monfalcone. The result brought good news: all the swabs made on ISIS students were negative and classes will be able to return. The test will be done again for a double check in thirteen days, says health company Giuliano Isontina. the contact tracking obviously it goes beyond the physical limits and also those of the schools. And there are cases when school will start late.
Isolation in Romagna. And there are already those that are gray
A Rimini some students from two classes at a scientific high school ended up in home isolation. Initial investigations found that they had close contact with a child from another school who tested positive before returning to school. The students received the communication from the Public Health Service on the weekend, before classes started, and never showed up for class. So did classmates who were not required to be isolated but who still preferred to stay home. No contagion in the classroom for now. For the lessons, however, you will have to wait.
The islands
The alarm sounded on Wednesday Terralba, Oristano province. A teacher had taught remedial math courses for about twenty children, respecting all safety rules. Then he discovered that it was positive, although asymptomatic. The school was cleaned up and reopened. In Sicily to be positive for now are teachers and operators. A nursery school in Erice where a teacher is affected by Covid has closed. Same luck for an institute from Nosengo to Petrosino, Trapiani, closed due to the positivity of an employee.
Big Outbreak, Epidemiologist’s Warning
On the risk that it is the school that becomes “the great seedbed” of these days, the epidemiologist of the University of Turin Giuseppe Costa says: “I think that if everyone takes responsibility for their individual behavior, it can be avoided. The system is capable of tracking and indicating possible outbreaks to maintain the circulation of the virus at levels that are not depleted from the point of view of the health system ”. The models, he continues, “tell us that if you manage to control and track more than 60 percent of the outbreaks in the classroom, there is no risk of returning to the spring situation. If we lost more than 50 percent of the cases in schools, the level of prevalence would not be controlled. However, we have already seen with the opening of work activities, where outbreaks have been identified and controlled, that we can do it ”.
