Tesei Regional Ordinance: Alternating Home and Distance Lessons for High School Students

The press conference of the President of Umbria is underway, Donatella Tesei, to explain the new prohibitions that had not been adopted and heard by the Government in the last Dpcm. As requested and announced by Umbria 72 hours ago at the State-Regions meetings, the president from October 21 to November 14 offers classroom lessons only for children, primary and secondary schools. While the high school students from the regional training centers will take turns giving face-to-face lessons and distance lessons. Translated: 50 percent fewer students each day on the street before and after entry, at bus stops and in transportation. An important decision to curb the contagion that is destined to increase in the coming weeks, according to the charts, if action is not taken immediately. The Department has provided a fund to finance new digital media to follow lessons and Internet activation costs.

And it is precisely this category, the young, that in the second wave they are the most affected by the coronavirus. It is usually asymptomatic but vehicular at home, for the weakest stages, parents and grandparents. Furthermore, in the ordinance, Tesei increases the maximum capacity of local public transport vehicles to 60 percent in order to guarantee the distance of at least one meter. The Region is working on acquiring rapid tests so that students and parents have an immediate response on their health status and intervene as soon as possible in the event of a positive result.

UPDATE – 17.54 – “The moment is difficult and it should make us all reflect because the future also passes through the behavior of each one of us”: Thus begins the call of the president Donatella Tesei who presented the regional ordinance that will insert new prohibitions and new methods – not foreseen by the Conte Government despite the requests of the Regions in the last Dpcm – for schools and public transport . All the health data and charts indicate that the next few weeks will be crucial to avoid falling back into a tunnel that risks blowing up the economy, jobs, businesses and extra-covid health services.

“We are putting in place everything that is needed – in the social and health sectors – facing this dramatic second wave of infections, but right now everyone’s sense of responsibility will make all the difference. I am addressing the boys, our children, we understand the need to face and be together, but it is necessary to give up some aspects so as not to lose everything. Look at the blockade is a very strong hypothesis in the short and medium term. We can’t afford it. Better to give up something now than to stay home again, with all the future effects that that entails. Everyone does their part: wearing masks, always distancing themselves even at home and adopting a respectful behavior so as not to endanger the health of the most fragile people ”.