School and home, here are the rules for contacts with a positive Covid

15 October 20204 years ago babelfish

Rules and advice to follow for pupils in a class where a child tests positive for Covid

What are the rules for children to contact Covid, that is, for children who are in the class of a positive?

All the details.

QUARANTINE FOR COVID CONTACTS

Children who come into contact at school with a student or a school worker who tested positive for Covid – considered close contacts (because they live together in the same class) – will have to be quarantined.

“The Covid-19 school referent must provide the Prevention Department with the list of classmates as well as the teachers of the confirmed case who have been in contact with you in the 48 hours preceding the onset of symptoms. Close contacts identified by the Prevention Department with the usual contact tracing activities will be placed in quarantine for 14 days from the date of the last contact with the confirmed case or in quarantine for 10 days from the last exposure with execution on the tenth day of antigen test. or molecular. ”, reads the website of the Ministry of Health.

WILL THE COVID CONTACT STUDENT HAVE TO TAKE THE SWAB?

The Prevention Department will always decide whether pupils should be swab.

“The Prevention Department will decide on the most suitable strategy regarding possible screening of school staff and pupils”, explains the Ministry of Health.

THE RULES TO RESPECT AT HOME

And once in quarantine ? Even at home there are rules to be respected. There are no official "instructions", but some suggestions come from the Prevention Department of the ASL of Rome.

We should (and the conditional is a must) reserve a dedicated room for the child or whoever is placed in isolation, where they should also eat meals. It would also be ideal to reserve a dedicated bathroom for him and let him sleep alone. It is necessary to avoid sharing linen and ensure, with due precautions, the cleaning and disinfection of the surfaces of the rooms used by the person in isolation.

A mate of my child is positive (asymptomatic). The class is in quarantine. The ATS contacted me to tell me that my 9-year-old son has to stand alone in a room alone, use his own bathroom and eat separately. The line is all up to you from the east wing of the Castle.

– Valentina Furlanetto (@valfurla) October 8, 2020

FULLY INSULATED BABY?

Does this mean zero contacts? Always the document of the Department of Prevention provides that you can leave the room wearing a mask. The attendant must also wear protective equipment.

Therefore, if on the one hand the regulations provide for minimal contacts, on the other they provide assistance. Assistance that, in the case of children, perhaps, would not be able to be limited to just a few minutes, as it could be done with an adult.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/scuola-e-casa-ecco-le-regole-per-i-contatti-con-un-positivo-covid/ on Thu, 15 Oct 2020 06:13:16 +0000.