Infections are growing, as are fears of a surge in new cases among young people, and the school is running for cover. With a return to the "old rules".

A new circular from the Ministry of Health is arriving today in the institutes to communicate that on the "light quarantine", the one that is decreed only when the third infection in a class appears, the government has decided to back down.

And therefore class at home and reactivation of the Dad even in the case of only one pupil or teacher positive.

"We are witnessing a rapid and generalized increase in the number of new cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection, even in school age - reads the circular - with a weekly incidence (cases / population) still growing and equal to 125 per 100,000 inhabitants (11/19/2021 - 11/25/2021): a value far from the optimal one of 50 per 100,000, useful for correct case tracking ".

It is therefore considered appropriate to temporarily suspend - continues the note signed by the Prevention DG of the Ministry of Health, Gianni Rezza, and by the Head of the Department for Human, Financial and Instrumental Resources of the Ministry of Education, Jacopo Greco - the program of ' surveillance with testing 'and to consider quarantine for all subjects in close contact with a class / group where even a single case has occurred among students and / or school staff ".

According to the indications, in the event that the ASL fails to intervene promptly, the principal will be "authorized, exceptionally and urgently, to arrange distance teaching immediately for the entire class group without prejudice to the assessments of the ASL in order to identify the subjects (to be considered 'close contacts' following an epidemiological investigation) to be formally subjected to the measure of quarantine ".

In the event that the ASL deems that the situation in the school is configured as an epidemic outbreak, it can also proceed with the closure for the period of control and quarantine.

(Unioneonline / vl)

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