The Omicron variant risks ruining the planned return to school after Epiphany. Even on the island, faced with the surge in infections on holidays, it cannot be excluded that the new year begins with the gates of the schools closed.
The hypothesis starts from the manager of the public hygiene service of the Ats-South zone (Cagliari, Carbonia, Sanluri), Antonio Frailis. If you then ask an expert, the epidemiologist Giovanni Sotgiu has the ready answer: “Wise decision”.
"Although Dad is a problem for the students", underlines the professor of Medical Statistics at the University of Sassari, "now there is a need to protect their health." In this phase "we must try to protect the part more fragile than the population, not everyone has completed the vaccination cycle, especially the children, we must not allow them to become infected because it is not true that they will not have consequences: the cases of pediatric long Covid represent an important clinical problem, as experience teaches of Israel, with children who, although asymptomatic, also end up having neuropsychiatric problems ".
“We scrupulously adhere to the rules, if this is no longer enough they must tell us what to do - says Peppino Loddo, director of the provincial school office - it is clear that the situation is worrying, especially in preschools and elementary schools. Sure that the virus and infections are there: in December out of 120 schools about ninety classes were in Dad before Christmas ".
(Unioneonline)
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