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Since the beginning of the lessons, 700 swabs have been processed, 17 infections. The Mazzini branch remains closed. A flight test center in the historic center
Genoa – Two weeks after the first bell. Fourteen days incubation time. Covid-19: the crazy variable of the always complex start of the school year. And the school is one of the two open fronts, in Genoa, along with the one in the historic center, which contributes to the increase in cases on a Ligurian basis. To the point that to circumscribe it the region is preparing to establish a “flying” buffer point: “We want to repeat what we did in La Spezia, where we obtained good results”, explains the President of the Region, Giovanni Toti.
Right in the old city arose another case of infection at school: for this a class of an elementary school was quarantined. In general, the number of students in isolation continues to increase, hand in hand with the number of swabs performed in the three student testing centers: the main one is in Gaslini, which also processes all the tests performed in the two satellite clinics, opened the last week in Voltri and Sampierdarena. “In the first week of school we processed 400 swabs requested by pediatricians for symptomatic students, only two tested positive – says the general director of the Gaslini Hospital, Paolo Petralia – in the second week, when the clinics began to function, the tests were 700 and the cases 17. Not all of them felt bad in class too. because requests always come to us through pediatricians. Furthermore, between the first and second week, requests for information from our call center dropped from 500 to 350 ».
Cases and unknowns
But in the school world, both at the manager level and among families, these first two weeks of testing and executing procedures have not been easy. There Sestri branch of Mazzini linguistic secondary school it remains closed until further notice given in concert by the director, Mario Predieri, and by the ASL3 Prevention Department. “The class in quarantine is one – Predieri explains – but as the cases of positive students were different, it was decided to be cautious, closing the institute. I am waiting for the results of the epidemiological investigation of ASL and the subsequent evaluations to understand if the other students can return. Teachers are activating distance education. It goes well with those who have already done it, while it is more problematic for the boys than before who had just started.
The building that houses the branch, in via Goitto, 300 students divided into three sections From the first to the fifth, it also houses three other institutes: the Bergese hotel and catering institute, 1300 students divided between a thousand during the day and 300 at night, the Rosselli professional institute with about 600 students, and some classes in the Calvino institute branch. Cinzia Baldacci, manager of Bergese and Rosselli, explains that “the three schools have been organized to guarantee staggered start times. The structures have three entrances that are used at different times ”.
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