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The ordinance on rapid antigen tests for schools could come soon. The Undersecretary of Health also confirmed it, Sandra Zampa: “The order is imminent, Minister Speranza has already said that we have to go to rapid tests at the school,” he said in statements to “Radio also” on Rai Radio 1.
“This – he explained – gives us much wider possibilities to cushion, to proceed with faster controls. The school is one of the places to have under control but what is worrisome is not so much the internal control, which is very high, but what pass outside. “
“Rapid tests have improved, at school and at airports they have become a very nocturnal option. They allow you to identify super speakers,” he also said. Walter Ricciardi, advisor to the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, in Sky Tg24.
These tests, used in airports, are performed with a kind of cotton swab for sampling, like the one used for the swab. But the difference lies in the method of verifying the presence of the virus and especially at the moment: with rapid tests the response arrives in 20-30 minutes, with a normal tampon it takes 24 to 48 hours. Therefore, with thorough checks and faster results, we will try to slow down the progress of infections.
Before final approval to use this tool put on screen It will be there Cts green disk. The ordinance is expected in the school world, because with the increase in cases of contagion, the number of institutions forced to close their doors also increases. As has happened for example in some municipalities of Sardinia, such as Villa San Pietro, Gonnesa, Alghero.
They already started yesterday in Lazio and could soon be used in Veneto as well, after President Luca Zaia asked for their use at school. In institutions where Rapid antigen tests are now available. – the Manara Lyceum in Rome was the first – controls on teachers and students have begun. At the Mattei Institute of Cerveteri, 466 rapid tests were carried out that made it possible to identify three cases of positivity: all three were immediately isolated and subjected to a molecular swab, always necessary to confirm positivity to the virus. In practice, this screening tool allows, if a positive case is found, do not block the teaching activity of the whole class: If a student exhibits symptoms, the antigen test allows him to immediately isolate his classmates and teachers with whom he has been in contact in the last 48 hours; then after the check buffer if this is negative the class can resume normal activity
At the moment, if there is a suspected case in the classroom, it is isolated, but the lessons continue, waiting for the ASL to find out the positivity with a swab. Only then is the quarantine activated for two weeks for your close contacts. This is clearly one of the school’s major critical issues, because it does not allow any Covid-19 outbreak to stop quickly.
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