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All school reopening plans address issues related to behaviors that must be adopted to prevent the spread of COVID-19. When used consistently and correctly, along with important mitigation strategies, masks are important to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Other important mitigation strategies include social distancing, hand washing, and regular cleaning and disinfecting of frequently touched surfaces in schools and buses. The ministries of health and education consider the use of masks and recommend that people wear masks in public places and when they are around people who live outside their family (including at home or in the family). The use of masks is particularly important when social distances are difficult to maintain.

Why the mask?

Masks are recommended as a simple barrier to help prevent respiratory droplets from passing through the air and reaching other people when the person wearing the mask coughs, sneezes, speaks, or raises their voice. Templates are an example of source code control. Several studies have documented asymptomatic and presymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2; which means that people with COVID-19 who never develop symptoms (asymptomatic) and those who do not yet show symptoms (presymptomatic) can still transmit the virus to other people. The masks are intended to protect other people in case the user is unknowingly infected.

The use of masks

The use of face masks in educational settings can present challenges, especially for younger students and students with special medical or educational needs. This article provides guidance to help school leaders decide the best way to implement the use of face masks in their school facilities, including but not limited to buses and other forms of shared transportation.
Education and promoting positive and supportive relationships must remain the primary focus of school leaders, teachers, and staff.

General consideration

COVID-19 can be spread to other people even if you don’t feel bad. A mask helps prevent a sick person from spreading the virus to other people. However, proper and consistent use of face masks is more important when students, teachers, and staff are at home and when social distance is less than one meter.
The bezels should not be placed on:

• Children under 6 years old.
• Anyone who has trouble breathing or is unconscious.
• Anyone who is incapacitated or unable to remove the mask without assistance.

Proper and consistent use of face masks can be challenging for some students, teachers, and staff, including:

• Younger students, like those in the first elementary schools.
• Students, teachers, and staff with severe asthma or other breathing difficulties.
• Students, teachers and staff with special educational or health needs, including intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental health conditions, and sensory concerns or tactile sensitivity.

I almost limit

Although it is strongly recommended that face masks reduce the spread of COVID-19, the Ministry of Education recognizes that there are specific cases where the use of a mask may not be feasible. In these cases, parents, guardians, guardians, teachers, and school leaders should consider accommodations and alternatives whenever possible. It may be necessary to consult health professionals (pediatrician, general practitioner, any specialist consulted) for advice on how to use the masks. It would be necessary to have documentation and prescriptions for such advice.
It should be determined that the masks do not cause breathing difficulties or overheating to the user. Not all families will agree to school policies on masks. Schools should have a plan to address differences (between parents and educational institution) that may arise and direct parents, guardians and guardians to study the legislation on the use of masks.

Practical recommendations

Here are some recommendations:

• Include face masks on school supply lists and provide face masks each morning to students, teachers, staff, or visitors who do not have them available.
• Include clear masks or visors on school supply lists for teachers and staff who regularly interact with students who are deaf or hard of hearing, students learning to read, students with disabilities, and those who rely on lip reading as part of the learning.
• Make sure students and staff are aware of the proper use of masks, including wearing masks on the nose and mouth, and safely around the face.
• Make sure students, teachers, and staff know to wash or sanitize their hands (using a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol) before putting on a mask.
• Make sure students, teachers, and staff are aware not to touch their masks while wearing them, and if they do, they should wash their hands before and after with soap and water or sanitize them (using a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol).
• Make sure teachers and staff are aware that they should wash or sanitize their hands (using a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol) before and after helping a student put on or adjust a mask.
• Make sure all students and staff know that masks are not to be worn if they are wet. A wet mask can make breathing difficult.
• Make sure all students and staff know that they are never to share or exchange masks.
• Student masks should be clearly identified with their names or initials to avoid confusion or confusion. Student face masks can also be labeled to indicate top / bottom and front / back.
• Masks should be stored in a designated space for each student that is separate from others when not in use (eg, in individually labeled containers or bags, personal lockers).
• Masks should be washed after each day of use and / or before being reused, or if they are visibly dirty.
• Students and schools should consider having additional masks available for students, teachers and staff in case a backup mask is needed during the day and to facilitate daily cleaning of the masks.

Note 1813 of 8.10.2020 and subjects with pathologies or disabilities incompatible with the use of the mask

Note 1813 of 8.10.2020 whose subject is “Decree-law of October 7, 2020, n. 125 – Use of masks “, establishes that” article 1 of the decree-law in question establishes that among the measures of the next dPCM there may be: “hh-bis) obligation to always carry respiratory protection devices, with the possibility of providing for the Mandatory use in indoor places accessible to the public, including means of transport, and in all outdoor places when close to other people not living together, and in any case with the protection of protocols.Anti-contagion planned for economic, productive activities and specific social, as well as the guidelines for the consumption of food and beverages, being excluded from said obligations: 1) subjects who are carrying out sports activities; 2) children under six years of age; 3) subjects with pathologies or disabilities incompatible with the use of the mask, as well as those who, when interacting with the aforementioned, find themselves in the same incompatibility. ”Article 5 prescribes, to the e awaiting the adoption of the next DPCM, “the obligation to always carry a respiratory protection device, as well as the obligation to carry it in interior places other than private homes … and in any case with the exception of the protocols and guidelines against -contagion foreseen for economic, productive, administrative and social activities ”.

The minutes of the CTS n. 104 of August 31, 2020

The minutes of the CTS n. 104 of August 31, 2020 that specifies: “Taking note of the importance of using these masks, it is specified that:

• In primary school, to facilitate learning and relational development, the mask can be removed under static conditions (ie children sitting at the desk) respecting the distance of at least one meter (nd, the so-called “mouth rhyme”, Or a distance of one meter between mouth and mouth) and the absence of situations that foresee the possibility of aerosolization (for example, singing) “.
• In secondary school, even considering a transmissibility similar to that of adults, the mask can be removed in static conditions with respect to the distance of at least one meter (nd rhymes in the mouth), the absence of situations that provide for the possibility aerosolization (eg song) and in an epidemiological situation of low viral circulation defined by the health authority “.

The Departmental Note September 10, 2020, n. 1529

The Departmental Note September 10, 2020, n. 1529 specifies that “the use of the mask, as reported in the note MI prot. DSEIF 1436 of August 13, 2020 “represents a balanced reconciliation of the needs to protect health and guarantee the effectiveness of the right to education.” Waiting for the completion of the renovation of the school furniture, in the short term, following the indications of the CTS, through the use of the mask, a key prevention tool to adopt, together with the guarantee of periodic and frequent air changes, Along with the usual hygiene rules, it may be possible to carry out teaching activities in the presence (as indicated in the CTS Act No. 104 of August 31, 2020). “Attached to this article is a model circular and a model that asks not to use a mask for pathology In this sense, applause for the director Rossella Fabbri, dean of the scientific institute “Sabin” in Bologna, which, also in this case, must be counted among the best practices.