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“What if we are already isolated? What if we are isolated today? Is there power for those who left three days ago? Does that mean we have to do it now or don’t we have to do tests? This will definitely cause questions in the teacher community, the issue of payment will come up again, ”said Arūnas Penkaitis, President of the Vilnius Duke Gediminas Progymnasium Parent Council.
The Minister emphasizes that from now on, healthy children will no longer need to be isolated.
“Those who were in the risk zone, who were identified as close contacts, must be tested each time and if their tests are negative, they continue to attend school successfully,” the Minister of Education, Science and Science told television. Sports, Jurgita Šiugždinienė.
Under the new procedure, children who wish to continue attending school will have to take three tests if a case of fighting is detected in the immediate environment.
“You are doing a test to shorten the isolation. If we do not want to carry out isolation at all, we want to continue contact education, which is an opportunity for children to be tested periodically,” explained Guoda Ropaitė-Beigė, Director of the Vilnius Public Health Office.
Others may opt for weekly isolation and return to educational institutions after a PCR test if they receive a negative result.
“If we have a case where on the seventh day you do a test and the laboratory examines it, then on the same seventh day you can go back to the educational process,” said G. Ropaitė-Beigė.
According to the parent representative, although it is gratifying that more students are able to return to class, the details were not thought through when trying to solve the problem.
“This problem is really challenging enough now, but we have challenges now, not whether children will be able to go to school, but the challenges that we have now have carried over to the Public Health Office a bit and especially to school. It is It is necessary to answer the questions that will help, who will make sure that the entire evaluation procedure, how to motivate those teachers, ”said A. Penkaitis.
Student test
Confused and heads of educational institutions.
“There are some uncertainties about this self-monitoring, self-testing with rapid antigen tests: who will do the test, will do it at school or will have to pay? We have still left these questions open,” admitted to LNK Eglė Sidorova, director of the school Northern Lyceum.
Schools say older students won’t have a problem with tests on their own, but health professionals reassure parents and reassure those who have answers to all questions.
“As no test has been paid so far, whether we carry out cumulative tests or self-monitoring, the state really does the purchases centrally and we receive those measures from the National Public Health Laboratory,” said G. Ropaitė-Beigė.
“I don’t know, I’m not completely sure, but as far as I understand, only older students in our progymnasium can test themselves. Apparently, beginners will need the help of a specialist,” said E. Sidorova, director of the Lyceum of the North.
The school principal says that health professionals help resolve emerging uncertainties.
“I only received official documents this morning. There are points that are not entirely clear, but we have a specialist from the Public Health Office who contacted us and explained more to us,” said E. Sidorova.
However, not all schools can boast of this situation. With the onset of the pandemic, more than half of health professionals left educational institutions, so the offices are empty and there are no changes in procedures to explain.
“We have a great challenge with professionals who physically work in schools. If we have 485 institutions, then up to 260 institutions are not a permanent specialist, ”confirmed G. Ropaitė-Beigė, Director of the Vilnius Public Health Office.
According to the Department of Statistics, there are currently more than 100 COVID-19 outbreaks in schools. Several hundred cases of infection and 2.5 thousand have been identified. the students are isolated.
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