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The school closes for covid: DaD returns for almost all the students. Contagions uphill and more and more red areas


From Monday the classrooms will continue to be emptied: the rules of the new decree law and the new color changes will force millions of students into distance learning. In fact, the increase in new infections is of great concern (today the new positives were almost 28 thousand).

The epidemic in Italy is in sharp growth while in other European countries it is decreasing. Here is the sixth consecutive week in which the curve is growing. Only in Umbria and Bolzano can we see a decrease, but here measures have been in place for weeks ”. This is the alarm that the president of the Higher Institute of Health, Silvio Brusaferro, raised during the press conference on the analysis of the data of the regional monitoring of the control room.

The new ordinances that the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza will sign provide for the passage in the red zone for the Regions Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Lombardy, Marche, Piedmont, Puglia, Veneto and the Autonomous Province of Trento which are added to Campania and Molise which remain in the red area.

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But the government has already moved and today approved a new decree law: from Monday 15 March to 6 April, the Regions that have a weekly number of cases exceeding 250 per 100,000 inhabitants will automatically pass into the red zone. For the Easter holidays, from 3 to 5 April, the measures envisaged for the red zone will apply throughout the national territory. Furthermore, from March 15th to April 2nd 2021 and on April 6th 2021, in the Regions whose territories are located in the yellow zone, the measures established for the orange zone are applied.

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Among the new restrictive measures and the new ordinances of the Ministry of Health, therefore, practically all of Italy, almost all students will have to follow the lessons at a distance: face-to-face teaching will remain in force in the orange areas, except for local restrictive measures. But many are already asking for some “exceptions”: among these also the Undersecretary for Education Barbara Floridia who points out that the new framework would lead to the situation that 9 out of 10 students would stay at home. “A situation that would be the worst since the national lockdown a year ago,” notes Floridia. For this reason, according to the senator of the Five Star Movement “Some rules should be reviewed. I am referring in particular to the closures of nursery schools, kindergartens and elementary schools. At least these should also remain open in the areas red in order not to burden the emergency on our children and not to put Italian families in serious difficulty “.

There are no doubts, however, for the Governor of Veneto Luca Zaia: “schools of all levels must remain closed in the red areas“He said at the press conference.

In the red zone, however, the students with disabilities and special educational needs not only will they be able to attend the school face-to-face, but they can also be accompanied by a group of classmates who will participate in classroom lessons in rotation. This is what the note of 12 March that the Ministry published on the afternoon of 12 March.

It should also be noted that in recent weeks many have gradually abandoned the concept of “safe school“At the time of the covid. Especially the variants have forced us to observe the school from another perspective.

Among the first against the school in the presence mathematical Sebastiani: “in the second half of February we were already witnessing the results of face-to-face lessons, with intensive care that will increase more in the regions that first reopened the classrooms”.

The one who had to take a step back from the past was the immunologist Antonella Viola: “School is a place at risk “, Viola explains why “It is impossible to keep children at a distance with a well-worn mask and the classes are too numerous. With this new contagious variant, it is better to close schools“.

And on the front vaccine at the moment it cannot be said that we are proceeding quickly: it is true that at the moment they have been vaccinated over 500,000 between teachers, managers and Ata staff but the case of AstraZeneca lot suspended by Aifa raised the alarm among the school staff. “The vaccine is a great opportunity to get out of this situation and we must face it responsibly, always looking at the general interest. We can’t stop the vaccination. It is the weapon to face the covid “, he said to Orizzonte Scuola the general secretary of the CISL Scuola Maddalena Gissi.

Hopefully the new vaccine plan can also help to manage the knot of differences between regions that currently travel at different speeds. Although, as we know, a robust increase in available doses is needed.

Government press release

Urgent measures to address the health risks associated with the spread of COVID-19 (decree-law)

The Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the President Mario Draghi and the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, approved a decree-law that introduces urgent measures to deal with the health risks associated with the spread of COVID-19.
In consideration of the greater diffusion of the virus and its variants and in view of the Easter holidays, in order to further limit the possible occasions of contagion, the provision establishes measures of greater intensity than those already in force, for the period between 15 March and April 6, 2021.
The text provides, among other things, for the entire period indicated:

  • the application, in the territories in the yellow zone, of the measures currently envisaged for the orange zone;
  • the application of the measures currently envisaged for the red zone to the Regions, identified by order of the Minister of Health, in which there is a cumulative weekly incidence of infections exceeding 250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, regardless of the other parameters referring to the color of the area ;
  • the right for the Presidents of the Regions and Autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano to apply the measures envisaged for the red zone, or further motivated more restrictive measures among those envisaged by the decree-law no. 19, in the Provinces where there is a cumulative weekly incidence of infections exceeding 250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants or in areas where the circulation of variants of SARS-CoV-2 determines a high risk of diffusivity or induces serious disease.

In the cases of suspension of school activities or of infection or quarantine of children, the possibility of taking advantage of partially paid leave is provided for employee parents and, for self-employed workers, the forces of the security, defense and public aid sector, the law enforcement and healthcare professionals the possibility to opt for a contribution for the payment of babysitting services, until 30 June 2021.
From 15 March to 2 April and 6 April 2021, in the yellow and orange areas, it will be possible to go to other private homes only once a day, between 5.00 and 22.00, remaining within the same Municipality. A maximum of two people can be moved, who can in any case bring with them children under 14 (or other children under 14 over whom the same people exercise parental authority) and people with disabilities or non self-sufficient living together.
Finally, on 3, 4 and 5 April 2021, the measures established for the red zone will be applied throughout the national territory, with the exception of the Regions or Autonomous Provinces whose territories are located in the white zone. On these days, in the areas affected by the restrictions, travel to other inhabited private homes will be possible only once a day, between 5.00 and 22.00, remaining within the same Region.

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