New Attendance and Absence Guidelines – School

A simple cold or headache, not accompanied by a fever or severe cough, will no longer be sufficient to exclude school attendance at FVG. This is the most important news of the new guidelines document on Covid 19 in schools announced by the president of the Fedriga region on the sidelines of the press conference for the 2020 influenza vaccination campaign.

A new protocol for the treatment of suspected cases of coronavirus. It is expected in the middle of the week and it appears that it will take into account the many critical issues that arose a month after returning to the courtroom. At the fore is the boom in requests for tampons from students, especially in kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, with consequent pressure on families and medical clinics.

Repeated problems in Fedriga at a summit prior to the press conference of the representatives of the federation of pediatric doctors of the region Paolo Lubrano and Andrea de Manzini who were the first to request a change of pace with respect to the national guidelines from a broader symptomatology and smear.

Therefore, the focus is on specific tests also against the general risk of avoiding them by parents to avoid long waiting times and quarantines. To speed up procedures in the event of a suspected covid, rapid tests that reach health companies will also be used. And there would also be something new in terms of the justifications for sick leave.

Once the self-declaration has been eliminated, it should be returned to normal justification in the absence of symptoms that may have led to suspect a presumptive positivity. Nothing changes compared to before, however, in the event that the doctor has decided to have a tampon and it is negative, the return to school must be accompanied by a certificate from the same doctor. On the contagion front, the health authorities are reassuring: so far in schools in the region there is no outbreak, only isolated cases have developed in the family.