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Before returning to schools, the homes of teachers and students and school personnel will be evaluated on a cumulative basis. Vyturys elementary school testing, which begins Thursday, is projected to have 355 cumulative households of children and school employees who may have contact with students. This school will receive 3 points in 4 shifts. Similar volumes of research are also planned at other schools.
“Today we are beginning another very important stage of a safe return to contact education. The cumulative testing process in these three schools will be the same as in the case of Vilnius Duke Gediminas Progymnasium. In the first stage we will study the homes of students and teachers cumulatively, in the second stage we will study these surveys after 4-7 days. we will act only for students and teachers in the educational institution itself. Our public health specialists will be fully involved in this process, therefore, we believe that the experience of the first trial and even closer cooperation from all countries will help to bring education back into contact faster, ”says Guoda Ropaitė- Beigė, Director of Public Health of Vilnius. Office “Vilnius healthier”.
As during the pilot project in Vilnius Duke Gediminas Progymnasium, households will now receive an invitation to take the test via SMS, according to the lists provided by the schools.
After a cumulative test and it turns out that none of the households have COVID-19, the child will be able to go to school next week. However, if a positive coronavirus result is found in the group, the entire household will be invited to perform a control PCR test.
The municipal report recalls that on February 22. Vilnius was the first in the country to open a school for contact education. At this time, more than 600 students returned to school and no cases of COVID-19 were identified after five days of reevaluation cumulatively.
Other Lithuanian cities are following Vilnius’ example: this week, 26 municipal schools expressed their desire to apply the same school opening model that was tested in Vilnius Duke Gediminas Progymnasium.
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