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According to the interviewee, currently 17 cases of coronavirus have been registered in fifteen Lithuanian educational institutions. In total, there are 250 people in isolation as a result. According to R. Lingienė, today the numbers can still increase.
According to the interlocutor, although not many educational institutions are currently affected by the coronavirus, the number of isolated individuals is not small. The specialist explains that this is because the classes are large enough, in which all students must isolate themselves after the disease is registered.
When asked how Lithuanian schools and kindergartens manage to follow the recommendations of specialists, separate student flows, lead classes while teachers, not students, the NVSC director said that he did not yet have detailed information about it. But the school had not received any complaints.
“It just came to our knowledge then. No one actually goes to those schools, no inspectors have attacked. I have not heard any major complaints from the schools themselves,” R. Lingienė told Delfi.
According to her, a more detailed picture of how schools manage to work in the changed conditions should become clear next week, as public health professionals plan to train educational institutions.
“There will be a chat window of this type and then we will see, we will communicate with everyone if they want to contact us. I sincerely hope that we will spread this message very widely. As it was organized for companies, it will be an event of the same nature. We will try to answer everything. that we can, because you know, it’s individual things.
Now we will try to collect information that concerns them, we see. To share the recommendations of the World Health Organization, we will ask one of the school leaders to share their experience. Of course, now we are listening to what is happening here, but somehow it is not directly, we only hear it from the public space ”, said the interlocutor.
According to R. Lingienė, the schools themselves will have to learn to handle the situation, this is how everyone goes.
“I cannot give up a single recipe because the processes, sizes, methods and understanding are different,” he said. However, according to the director of the NVSC, despite the differences between educational institutions, specialists are preparing an assistance mechanism for them: 4 types of algorithms, which must be performed in one case or another in the event of a coronavirus threat In the institution.
“We want to take the first steps in what to do. Of course, school communities with parents can do more, they can also take greater risk management measures, even when those risks are minimal. This is in no way prohibited. But what we really have to do, and when necessary, we will try to present it in a very understandable way ”, commented the interlocutor.
R. Lingienė pointed out that it is already visible that fear of the coronavirus exists both among parents and teachers. According to the interlocutor, sometimes, as a result, educational institutions bend the stick completely unnecessarily.
“There were cases when a student in Klaipėda got sick who was not even in school and did not panic at school. That panic should go away and you have to learn to live with that virus. Another thing is that children get sick easily, it is important that they do not infect adults, you have to control it. But when it comes to the safety of children, it is the best solution for them all over the world, ”said R. Lingienė.
Asked whether epidemiologists were preparing for the scenario that after a few days of the school year diseases would be found in educational institutions, R. Lingienė assured that this was expected.
“It just came to our knowledge then. There was no news for epidemiologists. With that, you need to learn to live it and control it. There is no other way. You see, practically all children with confirmed cases have been infected in their family environment. Now definitely not is that the virus has spread to schools, “said the NVSC director.
R. Lingienė agreed that it would be naive to expect that the number of cases in schools and kindergartens will not increase. Therefore, she emphasized, it is very important that educational institutions are capable of managing this spread, preventing new diseases and avoiding paralysis of the entire educational process.
“Now I don’t really see any tragedy, but as much as I had to work with approved cases, communicating with school administrations on five days of the school year, sometimes it’s really a lot of initiative, it goes with best wishes, but not always enough. professional. This indicates a lack of knowledge. This is also entirely understandable, we will try to close those gaps, “said the interlocutor.
Delfi recalls that this year there are 1,031 general education schools in Lithuania. A total of 323.1 thousand students are studying this school year. students, including freshmen – more than 27 thousand. This year, 19.7 thousand people should graduate from general education schools. graduates.
27.2 thousand people work in general education schools. teachers.
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