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“For us, the priority is school, starting the lessons again. The public for sporting events, I’m sorry, is not a priority at the moment, ”says the doctor. Agostino Miozzo, coordinator of the Technical Scientific Committee, which is receiving requests from the different sports federations to bring spectators back to stadiums and sports halls. But with the number of positive cases approaching 1,500 per day, the worrying examples of Spain and France, according to the CTS, the only risks that can be taken are to reopen schools, with the highest degree of security possible.
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And the sport?
«Nothing against sports, but school comes first. I repeat: sporting events with the public in stadiums are not a priority.
Will classes resume on September 14?
“With the current trend of the epidemic, yes. If, on the other hand, there is a more pronounced increase in cases, we should make evaluations a few days before, around 10 or 11 September. You may need to be careful in areas where there is an increase in cases. But today the reopening of schools is sustainable.
In Germany, some schools had to close when the lessons were resumed.
“It can happen and we have to look closely at the examples from other countries. I want to be very clear: it can happen that a school, even in Italy, has to suspend classes because there are positive cases. But it will be necessary to live these events in cold blood, without dramatizing, as is done in other countries. In Italy there are sometimes contradictory reactions: for days I have received thousands of threats and insults for the obligation of the mask, for some days I have been receiving hundreds for the opposite reason, because as CTS we are not strict enough with the masks “.
Let’s be clear, because what happened to the legendary Plexiglas panels on the beaches that only existed in fantasy is happening at school. There are still those who think that there will be (fake) Plexiglas in the school. And that the children will have to follow the lessons with the mask.
“In the mask, the video call with the European part of the WHO will be important, in which the representatives of the European countries will participate on Monday. We will hear who has reopened the schools. As a Committee, we have already indicated a line. Under six years old without a mask. In elementary school only when you travel, when you wake up, when you take the media, but not sitting at the desks during class, gymnastics or while eating. For middle and high school the principle is the same.
In secondary schools there is a significant risk: thousands of children between the ages of 16 and 18 have been infected at nightclubs. How will this affect the spread of the epidemic at school?
“What happened in some situations is scandalous. We are paying for the superficiality of these months. There are videos to prove it. As Cts we had clearly said that the discos should not be open and that, in any case, the distance of two meters had to be respected. Some administrators of the premises have violated some norm, I hope that the Judicial Power clarifies. And the children, perhaps because of a sense of liberation after the confinement and the wrong messages sent by many adults who thought the emergency was over, have lived this summer recklessly. It is not the fault of the young. We have to explain to young people that they cannot feel invulnerable. Based on the experience of other countries, the reopening of schools may lead to an increase in RT, in the transmission rate, although there are contradictory data and therefore it is not taken for granted.
Where the distance between counters cannot be guaranteed, are you ready to quit?
“No. We have said otherwise: in very exceptional cases and temporarily, with the use of the mask, it is possible, for a few weeks, to teach without distances. In the meantime, alternative solutions must be found, including the tensioned structures installed by Civil protection “.
There will be no Plexiglass at school. But have you proposed it for buses? And it has waived the rule of the distance meter in public transport.
“Another thing that is not true. If a divider is installed between the seats of a bus or coach that stops the drops, you can sit next to it. But it must be made of a light and flexible material, not Plexiglas, which would create safety concerns. We have offered a number of solutions: High school hours must be different from office hours. The data on the hours in which the movements peaks are known, why can’t the high school student start the lesson at a different time than the employee? As a technical scientific committee, we have indicated 75 percent as the maximum percentage of media coverage. If the government wants to go up to 80, it can do it, it’s a choice. But every time you raise the bar, you take a risk. We have seen it with the discos ».
Do some teachers reject serological tests?
“I would have made them mandatory, but it’s a personal opinion. But I think the vast majority of teachers will do the tests. And it would be important, during the school year, in collaboration with Istat, to carry out a sample survey to the students, to know the extension of the virus ”. How much risk does an elderly teacher run, perhaps with some pathologies? “He will not be sent to the front line, it will be necessary to find alternative solutions, giving him different tasks, such as online teaching.” Why should you measure a fever at home? «We must prevent the student from leaving the house with a fever. Also because using a normal thermocanner, not a last generation one that costs a lot of money, on average it takes 5 seconds to measure the temperature of each child who enters school: in an institution with a thousand students, it would take 83 minutes, with queues and meetings “.
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