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It was on Wednesday that the alarm sounded. Two sisters from the Escola Secundária Pinheiro and Rosa, could be infected with the new coronavirus. The results of the tests came the next day, Thursday, to the Faro group. A positive, a negative. The students no longer returned to school and the infected student’s class was sent home with a prophylactic quarantine. The teachers of this group of students remain in the school, since they wear a mask permanently and maintain a distance of two meters from the young people.
“I don’t think there will be more contagion at school,” says Francisco Soares, director of the Pinheiro e Rosa group. This is the second time you have had to deal with a Covid-19 case. The first time was on June 18, the school closed its doors and the final balance was three infected operational assistants. Now she is a student.
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“I am not entirely sure, but it seems to me that the infection occurred within the family. They are two sisters, they live in the same house, and one was positive and the other negative ”, explains the director. After alerting the health services, Francisco Soares says that he investigated the contact networks of the students to provide this information to the health delegate and explained what happened to the class, before sending her home.
“We are activating distance education for these students, following all the protocols of the General Directorate of Health. Now they are at home, waiting to be contacted by the health delegate, who will decide who should or should not be tested to find out. infected after evaluating the network of close contacts ”, details the director.
All the decisions made so far have been made by the health delegate. “I just executed it and very calmly,” says Francisco Soares.
The director remembers that because they are high school students they all wear a mask and the school has strict safety rules, which leads her to believe that there was no contagion among the educational community. That is why it was also decided that it was not necessary to send the teachers home, as the safety rules were always observed.
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“Each case is different and the solutions are not all the same from school to school. All decisions are made with great awareness and this quick action helps us to make sure that there are no more infected. And in these cases everything comes from outside. I have no doubt that school is the safest place for students. and it is necessary to transmit this message of trust to parents ”, argues the director.
On Thursday, in a school in Guarda, the decision also made by the local health delegate was very different: classes continued to be in person even after an infected student was detected, The tests are only carried out on contacts considered at risk.
Regarding what happened now in Faro, Francisco Soares also emphasizes putting the case in perspective. “We started classes 7 days ago, we have 2,500 students in the group and 550 in secondary. We had a positive case of Covid-19. If we do the calculations, the percentage will be very low. “Account made for secondary school, the result is 0.18% of infected students.
