positives and classes in isolation, the situation region by region

Classes in isolation, schools closed, suspended lessons, students, teachers and families in quarantine. How is school going after the emergency shutdown? coronavirus? It is too early to take stock, but when the first week of back to school is about to end, there are about a hundred positive cases registered among students and teachers, distributed in all Italian regions. Even in the regions that have postponed the start of classes to Thursday, September 24, there have been infections in some schools that, in any case, have decided to reopen earlier (especially private schools and kindergartens).

Positive at school, the situation (almost) a week after recovery

The most difficult situation is recorded in tuscany. There are 42 school-age children who have tested positive for coronavirus after required swabs since September 14, the start date of the school year for many institutions. In detail, since September 14 in the region, requests for swabs for school-age children, from kindergartens to upper secondary schools, have been 1,640. The swabs performed and whose result was reported are currently 640, for a total of 42 positives (of which 13 positive with low viral load). There were 309 requests for tampons for children 0-3 years, 290 for the 3-6-year-old group, 452 for primary school students, 205 for lower secondary students, and 384 for secondary school students.

Just from Tuscany comes the news of the quarantine provision at home for 24 children, 4 friends and 6 teachers from the ‘Pellegrino Rossi’ institute in Massa after the Covid-19 positivity of a student from the Massese institute.

But Tuscany is not the only region affected by positivity in the world of education. From Friuli Venezia Giulia to Sicily, throughout most of Italy, various schools have to deal with new cases of Covid-19 and consequently with insulating and carpet swabs.

In Emilia romagna, three children attending a secondary school in Rimini tested positive for coronavirus after having come into contact with a classmate of theirs, who attended another school, who was also infected. Two classes have been put into solitary confinement, but the school remains open, also because the three boys in question, like their classmates who were subjected to the swab, were already in quarantine on Monday, when the first bell rang. So none of them set foot in high school. In fact, the epidemiological investigation of the Rimini health company had begun last week, after having discovered the positivity of a child. Their chain of contacts has been rebuilt: hence the decision to put the children of both high school classes in solitary confinement and testing.

A Ferrara, a kindergarten teacher tested positive. The protocol foreseen in these cases was applied: for 14 children and two other members of the educational staff, home isolation was started while waiting to be subjected to swabbing.

The latest cases of coronavirus at school

Three cases of Sars-CoV-2 in three different high schools a Bologna They were notified today to the Ausl di Bologna public health department. The students are all asymptomatic and attend three different schools, the Liceo Ginnasio Statale M. Minghetti, the Liceo Linguistico Laura Bassi and the Liceo Scientifico A. Righi. Currently, the subjects involved, including students and teachers, are about 30 for each Institute.

A child who attends the “San Lorenzo” nursery in Novara He tested positive for coronavirus and, along with all his classmates and teachers, was quarantined. This is the first case of Covid after the reopening of schools in the city. Today students and teachers will be swabbed in ASL. They will have to stay home for 14 days even in the case of a negative swab, which will need to be repeated when the quarantine expires. According to what was learned, the boy’s older brother – who attends the primary school of the private Immacolata institute – also tested positive for Covid. For this reason, the students of this institution will also be swabs.

” We could have waited for it and we were prepared: the protocols that had been developed have been activated and this is a guarantee that we can also face new emergencies that arise in schools, ” says the Mayor of Novara, Alessandro Canelli, commenting on the case. According to data provided yesterday by the Region, 5 students and school operators tested positive in Piedmont after the test result in the ‘school hot spots’ set for immediate diagnosis of coronavirus. As of yesterday, 212 students and school staff applied for the test.

Also in Piedmont, another positive case occurred New Ligure (in the province of Alessandria), where 15 students and six teachers of a third grade of the Pascoli school are in quarantine. The institute, after initiating the necessary procedures and informing teachers and parents, has already reopened. The ASL is also taking samples from the student’s family members who, even if they are negative, will still have to perform 14 days of fiduciary isolation. “We hope that everything turns out in the best way,” observes Filippo Pelizza, director of the institute. In any case, it should be noted that children are careful to follow the rules, many times much more than adults; real ‘toy soldiers’ ”. The school will host the polling stations for the referendum over the weekend.

The coronavirus returns to “hit” in the classroom too in Lombardy, after yesterday’s cases between Milan and Brescia. Increase your account positive for coronavirus in schools in Milan, which in the last hours has been opened after the long lockout – which took place between February and March – due to the coronavirus emergency. On Wednesday, according to the balance provided by Ats metropolitan city of Milan, six new positives were found among the counters. There are five students, one a micronid, four preschool, and a teacher. The 5 classes of young students have already been placed in isolation, while no measures have been taken for the institution where the teacher is teaching at the moment.

According to ministerial guidelines, classmates are effectively classified as “close contacts” and are automatically placed in isolation. Different speech, however, for educators, teachers and school operators who if they respect distance and the use of personal protective equipment are considered safe.

On Tuesday, 24 hours after the new first bell, the cases discovered in Milan were 4. The positives – explained Ats – were found “one in a primary school, one in a kindergarten, one in a nursery.” and one in a kindergarten. “There had also been the procedures that” led to the isolation of the classes attended “by the children and the isolation of an educator. According to what has been learned, all the new cases refer to to students who had undergone the hyssop and who were waiting for the results, but who obviously attended the lessons anyway. Precisely for this Wednesday, the General Directorate of Welfare of the Lombardy Region recalled that those who have not yet received the results of the tests should not go to school.

An entire class, including children and teachers, is at home in quarantine, awaiting the swab result, after a child tested positive for coronavirus. Happens in Cesano Maderno, in the Monza area, at the Montessori nursery school. Class activities are currently suspended and children, teachers and families are in solitary confinement. According to what has been reconstructed by the municipal administration and the school administration, it seems that the child who tested positive had been subjected to a swab on September 3 and despite the suspicion of contagion, the child continued to attend school on September 7, 8 and 9. September. The family learned of the boy’s positivity on September 9, and the boy has not gone to school the next day.

In Liguria, a student from the ‘Liceti’ technical institute of Rapallo (Genoa) tested positive for coronavirus. Yesterday, pending confirmation of positivity, the principal ordered that the entire class not enter today. With the confirmation of the positivity, the quarantine began for the entire class and for the two teachers who had given lessons to those students. “Given that there was a first case of quarantine of a class at the institute after a positive swab, it is recommended that all students and all parents observe with the utmost precision the precautionary measures provided by ministerial protocols and by the school,” he wrote director Norbert Künkler.

In Friuli Venezia Giulia, a student from the Gaspardis school in Trieste tested positive for coronavirus. This is the first case in the school structures of the regional capital. After the positivity, the plan was made to isolate the case. The student, 21 classmates and three teachers are now in quarantine.

In Lazio today a kindergarten student was found swab positive. Detention at Villa De Sanctis, in Rome, where it was necessary to close a kindergarten for two days. This was communicated by the director of the Simonetta Salacone Integral Institute: “The families of the Guattari infantile plexus are informed that this morning (yesterday, September 16) we were notified of the positive covid smear for a student from section A of the school in question “.

A student from Monterotondo, in the province of Rome, it was positive: the whole class was isolated by the ASL and the school itself. The mayor, Riccardo Varone, communicates this on his Facebook profile. “I received a communication from the Director of the Instituto Espazia Integral, of a positive case of a student at the school. The positivity is currently not attributable in any way to a contagion that occurred within the school.

Sardinia, students in quarantine in the province of Oristano

A teacher of positive recovery courses for the coronavirus and a score of students, in quarantine, waiting for a swab. It happened at the Viale Sardegna secondary school in Terralba, a town of just over ten thousand inhabitants in the province of Oristano. The school complex was sanitized this morning and is open. The alarm was triggered yesterday when the director was contacted by Ats who was reconstructing the chain of contacts of a teacher from the ‘Iscola’ project funded by the Region, who tested positive for Covid-19, but asymptomatic. The teacher, who is not part of the school’s teaching staff, had a few days ago taken courses for the recovery of learning in which about twenty young people from the Viale Sardegna secondary school had participated.

Daycare centers closed in Palermo

In Sicily, the “Melograno” nursery in via Monte San Calogero closed as a precaution in Palermo. The measure was triggered after a parent tested positive for the coronavirus. It was the parents of the little girl who attended the nursery who last night communicated the results of the swab to the reference teacher of “Granada”. This is the third Nile kindergarten closed by the municipality after Lark and Filastrocca.