Covid is sending schoolchildren home again, now there are thousands of them. He leads Brno and its surroundings
And it is not the only educational facility in southern Moravia with which the coronavirus acts again. Due to the epidemic, almost four thousand children and over two walls of classrooms are currently in quarantine. Two primary and two kindergartens had to close completely. “Currently, the highest morbidity is in Brno and the Brno region, approximately one hundred and thirty patients per one hundred thousand inhabitants. This also applies to the location of the affected school facilities, “informed Radka Boháčová from the Regional Hygiene Station.
Children in quarantine, and the often associated need to be at home with them, add a number of parents again after a short break.
Pavla Frňková from Adamov in the Blansko region, for example, has had a very demanding start to the school year. Since the beginning of September, all three of her sons have been quarantined. In addition to her work from home, she was also partially taught the curriculum from primary school.
“Only two of the children in the class were quarantined with two sons. As a result, they had online training only minimally, because the other classmates went on to school and we had to catch up at home. It’s very demanding, I work from home myself and I really have a lot. It is also an extreme pressure on children, because they have big gaps in teaching since last year and it is still packing, “said the woman.
She thus came across the fact that even if an infected pupil appears, the whole class does not necessarily have to be quarantined. The hygienist has the decisive word. “We trace and determine according to risky contacts who will go to quarantine,” said Marcela Hadámková, director of the Department of Hygiene of Children and Adolescents of the Regional Hygiene.
The high number of closed classes and quarantined children thus results from the measures in force rather than from the disease sending them to bed. Most of those who stay at home because of Covid-19 are, according to the findings of the Daily Equality, without any health problems.
“However, we are witnessing an unprecedented high morbidity of reported acute respiratory diseases from the pediatrician’s office, which is due to other viruses,” Boháčová added.
This is evidenced by data and comparisons with previous years. Although Covid-19 is on the rise, it is far from reaching the same values as in the same period last year. This also applies to severity. Forty-seven percent of cases have problems after the disease.
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Quarantined classes:
– Schools and kindergartens: 2 primary and 2 kindergartens.
– Classes: 208.
– Children: 3,806.
– Ratio of children to all infected: 22 percent.
– The most affected area: Brno and Brno.
– Number of patients: 130 per 100 thousand inhabitants.