They left new rules for manage Covid infections in schools in Italy, always with the aim of keeping the safety of students and school staff as high as possible and aiming to keep lessons in attendance.
The new rules of the Ministry of Education, which sent the protocol to the schools, provide for one standardized procedure relating to the management of infections and quarantine of students who test positive for Coronavirus. Procedure that starts automatically before any intervention by the health authorities and which does not involve any discretionary health assessment.
The measures differ according to the age of the students and their vaccination status.
The rules for primary and secondary schools
In case it turns out a positive in a class, the other students will have to do a test as soon as possible, test called T0, and if this is negative then you can go back to school. After that, after five days they will have to take another test.
If instead i positive should be two, unvaccinated students will have to go into quarantine, while those vaccinated or negativized in the last six months will have to do surveillance with testing.
If the positives were to be three, the whole class must undergo the quarantine.
The rules for kindergartens
In the case of childcare services, a immediate test and the ten-day quarantine. At the end of the quarantine, a new test will be done. For the teachers, will be the health authority to evaluate and depends on how long they have been in the same environment with the positives and direct contact with them.
The suspension of lessons and school contacts
Le lessons will suspended by the principal only in an exceptional and urgent way and when the health authorities cannot intervene immediately. He will have to follow predetermined rules, that is to inform the ASL, identify school contacts and suspend lessons and work activities for them.
I school contacts are children who are part of the same section or group as the positive case for early childhood education services and preschools, classmates for primary and secondary school and school staff who have carried out face-to-face activities for at least 4 hours in the same environment as the positive case.
The school contacts will be sent the indications provided by the DdP (Department of Prevention) and the principal reports to the DdP the school contacts found.
