First positive student in Rome: 60 people in isolation. The school advised by their parents

Sixty persons between students and teachers in isolation for at least one week. Not even the time to start, it’s already there a positive student on Covid-19 in Rome. The boy is 17 years old and attends high school. Marymount International of Rome, an American private school ofl north quadrant of the capital. It was the boy’s parents on Thursday who warned chaired by Sarah Gallagher, which immediately mobilized ASL Roma 1 to start the procedures. Health workers have taken steps to isolate about fifty guysthat is, the class members of the young man who tested positive and others with whom he has come into contact since then. September 2, the date on which the school reopened to its students.

However, according to ASL sources, they would be no more than a dozen really “at risk” youth. The rapid antigen swab will be done in 6-7 days, as soon as it can be false negative. During the weekend, the complex will be disinfected and on Monday the lessons will begin. “The institute got in touch with the families and has guaranteed distance learning for all, nobody will be left behind ”, explains a Ilfattoquotidiano.it from the Marymount press office: “During the summer we developed extremely prudent procedures precisely to protect us from a situation that soon manifested itself. In addition to individual banks, we have created shifts in the canteen and we provide double copies of the books, in some cases preferring the digital format, so that children they should not let in their study volumes from the outside”.

The Marymount is a note Catholic Peer School, which, therefore, opened before the public schools: in this delicate return, the private schools have become a a kind of ‘test bed’ to understand how the lessons will resume. In exactly ten days the first bells will ring in Italian schools: in recent weeks the many issues still pending have been debated, from the distances to the desks, from the mask to the seats of the school buses. The biggest unknown is precisely understanding what the role of school restart will be in increasing infections.

Deputy Minister Pierpaolo SileriA few days ago, he outlined the ministerial strategy to adopt in the event that a case of positivity arises in the classroom, exactly as happened to Marymount: ““ In the event that a student is positive – explained to Agora – Class quarantine is a possibility, but will be preferable a swab for everyone for a faster return to school “.