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Positive students and teachers discovered. All schools closed. Here are the details.
Palagonia (CT) – Almost a thousand students in isolation. School activities had to be suspended after tracking the positives initiated by the anti-covid team led by Giuseppe Liberti.
In Palagonia, an agricultural center in the province of Catania, all the students of the Blandini Integral Institute end up in quarantine. Although the classrooms are distributed in three differentiated complexes, the decision, taken with caution, has caused concern in the city.
The anti covid commissioner intervenes
Giuseppe Liberti is the Catania commissioner for the covid emergency. The law, according to Liberti, is the result of the more than certified need to place all students and staff working in the institute in isolation.
“Not as a precaution – Liberti tells LiveSicilia – but with the data in hand we consider it appropriate, since there are around 9 classes with complete cases and two positive teachers. In view of these data – Liberti continues – we have proposed the closure. Swabs will be done 10 days after provision. The symptoms are followed and monitored by our Usca network ”.
Reconstruction of the facts
On Friday, a boy attending one of the school’s three complexes tested positive in a private laboratory. Also in Palagonia, what is representing a problem of no small importance throughout Sicily occurs: the serological test, carried out in any private laboratory, does not automatically trigger any protocol for tracking and circumscribing infections, but only a communication from the Asp laboratory .
To certify positivity, an additional test, the molecular one, is needed, performed and prepared by ASP health workers or by some laboratories. This, as has already happened, makes a time elapse between the possible evidence of a contagion and its formalization with the relative count of the patient among the current positives in the Region. In this procedural condition in Palagonia the mayor finds out about at least four other infections in some families.
“Sanitation of schools”.
On Sunday, the mayor chooses to protect the families and students of the schools in question. With a union ordinance, he decides on the cleaning of classrooms and the suspension of school activities. The situation that has arisen is also made known to the mayor in a videoconference in the presence of the Councilor for Health Ruggero Razza.
Closure and isolation for almost a thousand people
On Tuesday afternoon, with a communication sent to the director of the Blandini Integral Institute, the Asp 3 of Catania announced the need to close the Integral Institute and quarantine all the students who attend the three complexes for 10 days. Therefore, the 930 kindergarten, primary and secondary school students, teachers and school staff will have to stay home waiting for the swab.
However, neither the number of infected people at the Institute nor the quarantine provision would have been handed over to Mayor Salvatore Astuti, who cannot proceed to verify compliance with the quarantine in search of positives.
The mayor intervenes
“Currently and officially I have 47 quarantined and 6 positive subjects in my city, but we know there are more. I am constantly updated on the subject but only with respect to the data considered official and communicated by Asp 3 and to date I have not received communication, if not a copy of the communication received by the director, about the supervening need to quarantine the school students and their families or employees. On the phone, I learned that everyone will be cleaned on Tuesday. I hope that the prudence of these days will help us to avoid hypotheses of generalized contagions on a large scale within my community that in recent weeks is preparing for the long and laborious campaign of the orange harvest, a delicate moment for the economy of the country. territory so much for the direct economy of the families of my city “
In Palagonia, therefore, among students, teachers and school personnel but also family members, around 30% of the entire population of the municipality must respect the quarantine.
The swabs, despite this high number of interested parties, will not take place until next week.
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