Schools, new cases of Covid also in the center of Bari. Decaro on the attack: “Enough of the parties”

A situation destined to get complicated day by day with the growth of the contagion curve, which also prompted Mayor Antonio Decaro to publish a new appeal on Facebook. By publishing the images of a street party to celebrate a wedding, the mayor not only explained how in a single day Bari registered 75 more infections but also pointed a finger “at the families of those children who participated in a birthday party that brings the infection home and school. “

The reference is in all probability to the case registered in the Mazzini school, where I am two brothers who attend different classes and the father did well. Under indictment, in fact, a party attended by about seventy guests. The students who have come into contact with the two brothers are isolated. In the Piccinni school, however, the infection affected eight fifth-graders and one of their teachers and two first-graders. Both classes are attended by brothers who discovered for the first time that they had contracted the virus. Only one of them had a fever; the other, like all the other colleagues, had no symptoms. The ASL Prevention Department has tested a score of Piccinni students, invited to remain isolated when the first two contagion episodes have been discovered. The swabs will also be made on the coms, pages of the two children who attend Mazzini.

The cases of the two elementary schools in the center draw attention to the school world and to the need to streamline the application system and therefore the administration of tests to children who experience symptoms similar to those of Covid. The risk is not only that of not immediately limiting the spread of the virus (the child with fever and cold stays at home, but not their parents), but also that of delaying the entry to school of students who have a simple respiratory virus . . “According to the reports of my colleagues, the waiting times for tampons vary from country to country and can reach, as in some cases in Bari, even ten days”, explains Luigi Nigri, vice president of the National Federation of Pediatricians of Free Choice. Pending approval to carry out rapid tests, to speed up the system, the ASL of Bari has ensured the activation for next week of a computer platform for the real-time request of tampons by pediatricians. A mechanism similar to the one used for vacation returns that will allow doctors to enter their prescription without going through the ASL Prevention Department.