No emergency infections in public transport



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“It is not public transport that significantly affects the growth of infections in Rome.” Be convinced of it Sergio Iavicoli, member of the scientific-technical committee, director of Inail’s department of epidemiology and occupational hygiene, who commented on the data communicated by Roma Mobilità to Il Corriere della Sera. “There are no outbreaks attributable to this type of movement,” explains Iavicoli, specifying that “in any case, overcrowding must be avoided: we must pay attention to peak hours and increase the number of vehicles available.” The reason would be that the vehicles transport 30 percent less passengers than in the same period last year, and because, despite being closed environments, the residence time would not be long, but, in most cases part of the cases, about thirty minutes. To make the situation in public transport sustainable, except for exceptions for delays and cancellations, would be the measures adopted to limit participation, such as labor gangs, staggered school admissions, the promotion of smart work and use of the mask on board. Traffic in the city is at pre-Covid levels.

“Schools are not vehicles of contagion”

Schools, like public transport, are not significant vehicles of contagion, but the occasions when the virus has the opportunity to spread are after-school moments, such as friends’ gatherings, moments of conviviality, parties and activities in which they are not respected the rules. rules imposed by the dpcm, that is, they do not always include the use of the mask and social distancing and to which we must pay attention. In Lazio schools at the beginning of October, as reported by the regional health advisor Alessio D’Amato and the governor Nicola Zingaretti during a press conference at the Lazzaro Spallanzan hospital, there were 290 i almost in the coronavirus found by the health personnel of the different local health authorities after performing the quick swabs: most of them refer to high school students and were performed outside of school.



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