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Before reopening, DGS wants daycares to update contingency plans, which should include procedures to be adopted in the event of a suspected COVID-19 case and the definition of an isolation area, among other measures.
All employees must wear a surgical mask. and the cleaning of the space must respect a previous DGS orientation.
For the nursery operation, the entity wants a “Guarantee of reducing the number of children per room so that, in most activities, the distance between them is maximized, without compromising the normal operation of play-pedagogical activities”
For when they are sitting or when they are in cribs and / or deck chairs there must be a distance of 1.5 to 2 meters between children.
“In the case of nurseries where children have not acquired mobility and need to be in cribs, deck chairs or other comfort equipment for this purpose, the existence of one piece of equipment per child, and you should always use the same ”, defends the DGS.
Children and staff should be organized in fixed rooms. (each employee must correspond to a single group) and the spaces defined according to this section to avoid contact between people from different groups.
To avoid crossing people, the guide establishes delayed entry and exit times and the definition of circuits to enter and leave the activity room for each group.
Parents should go and take the children to the door of the nursery, individually, avoiding, whenever possible, that they circulate within the institution.
The guide says that the Children’s shoes must be left at the door.Parents may be asked to bring additional shoes to wear only in the room. The same applies to employees.
Domestic toys should not be taken to the nursery, as well as other unnecessary objects. Institution toys should be washed regularly (two or three times a day).
The document also considers that employees should “guarantee, whenever possible, that children do not share objects or that they are properly disinfected between uses. “
For this, they defend the use of the individual material necessary for each activity, the impossibility that children take toys from home, wash toys two or three times a day and, if it is not possible to wash them, they should be removed from the room, as well as all non-essential accessories for recreational-pedagogical activities.
“To ensure that the safety of children is not compromised, the doors and / or windows of the rooms must be kept open, to promote air circulation,” the document said.
“If there is equipment such as air conditioning, it should never be turned on in recirculating air mode,” defends the guide from health authorities.
Nap and food with “the greatest possible physical distance”
At nap time, there should be a mattress for each child and make sure they always use the same thing, separating the mattresses from each other “as much physical distance as possible” and maintaining the position of the feet and alternate heads.
Air circulation is also requested in these rooms at bedtime.
Cleaning and decontamination services should be reinforced before and after the nap, says DGS.
During the meal period, traveling to the room where they eat should be gradual to decrease the crossing of children and places must be marked. The document even proposes that meals in the activity room should be considered if possible.
Decontamination of the surfaces used must be carried out between shift changes (tables, high chairs, among others).
“Cleaning with water and detergent will be, in most cases, sufficient, but in specific cases you can also decide to do the disinfection,” says the document now published by the Directorate General of Health.
Privileged own transport
DGS has also published a set of rules on the transport of children in this context.
“Whenever possible, individual transportation of children by parents or their designees must be privileged “, the document references.
In the case of a school bus, the safety interval and the distance between passengers (example: one per seat) must be observed, in addition to a reduction in maximum capacity. The alcohol-based solution must be available and the vehicle must be decontaminated after each trip.
