Covid in children, infections increase between 6-11 years. San Marino anticipates the closure of schools- Corriere.it
In the small state from 18 the teaching in presence stops, for middle and high school another 5 days of dad. The IS reports an increasing incidence among the smallest, but the Draghi government claims the effectiveness of the protocol: 0.4% of infections among students and quarantines at 2.1%
The focus is now on infections in schools. In Italy, as highlighted in the latest report of the Higher Institute of Health (Iss), there is a sharp increase in incidence
among children from 6 to 11 years which may be vaccinated only from December 16th. In this age group, about half of the diagnostic cases were recorded in the entire 0-19 year class. In children from 0 to 9 years, the incidence took place in the last week «values greater than 250 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants“.
In order to curb the growing infections and get Christmas, San Marino
he decided to
anticipate the closure of schools
. The Italian government, instead, it claims the validity of anti-Covid protocols in schools and focuses on vaccinations.
Dad returns to San Marino
Last Friday in San Marino 105 new infections were recorded, with a growing curve and 478 currently positive (out of about 34 thousand residents) with an average age of 36 years, 10 hospitalized and of these two in intensive care. The secretariat for public education, with a circular sent to school managers, ordered the early closure for school Christmas holidays. From 18 December (5 days before the official calendar) cthey will hear kindergartens, kindergartens and elementary schools. The pupils of the S.
secondary schools (middle, high school and vocational training center) they will be in dad from 18 to 23 December and then they will go on vacation. For all, the return to school is fixed after the Befana.
The centrality of face-to-face teaching
The Italian executive, for now, is firm on the line it has always reiterated: the centrality of face-to-face teaching. The Ministry of Education then claims the effectiveness of the protocol in force and stresses that infections among students are at 0.4% and quarantines at 2.1%. The possibility is excluded that the Regions decide autonomously (as happened last year): local authorities can intervene for schools where outbreaks break out or those in areas where the infection is more widespread. Yet the principals draw attention to “a greater spread of the virus in elementary school and in the first two years of middle school compared to high school, “he says Mario Rusconi, of the national council of the Presidi Association.
Super green pass and vaccines
For now, therefore, the Draghi executive does not envisage the use of new measures to stop the infections: the situation is under close surveillance, especially the Rt contagiousness index. But every assessment will be made on the basis of the data from the vaccination campaign. The executive is betting heavily onsuper green pass effect on the third doses and on the new vaccinations which in the last week have grown to 244 thousand. General Francesco Figliuolo wrote to the Regions raising the target of the administrations: 6 million and 300 thousand injections from 13 to 26 December, with a daily average that can reach 500,000 doses.
Vaccination of children
The first vaccine administrations to children of 5-11 years old they will leave Thursday 16, close to the official closure of schools and holidays: therefore, you will be able to see them immediate results on the progress of infections in this age group. In adults, in fact, “the maximum protection is reached a few days after the second dose – writes the ISS-pur, according to the first data found from the current campaign, even after the first dose there is likely to be some protection from the virus, this is not immediate and develops progressively after at least 7-14 days from the injection “.
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