In Central Bohemian schools, the coronavirus was most common around Prague
The Christmas holidays officially start on Thursday, but many schoolchildren of all ages have been off since the beginning of the week. Although the overall numbers of newly confirmed cases of coronavirus have been declining in recent days, in some schools the situation was different last week.
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| Photo: Diary / Lukáš Kaboň
And many times the school management responds with the opportunity to declare director’s leave. In some regions, a third of school buildings fell silent.
Regularly assessment of the situation last week by the regional hygiene station shows that in the 50th calendar week (from 13 to 19 December) more coronaviruses were recorded in the region in more than half a thousand schools and school facilities: a total of 516. With a clear predominance around the capital : there were 92 of them in Prague-east, 70 in Prague-west; from other districts the most reports came from Mladá Boleslav (48), Mělnicko (47) and Benešov (43). Primary schools still predominate (289), there is an increase in diseases in pre-school facilities (137 kindergartens + 9 children’s groups); on the other hand, secondary schools and apprenticeships as a whole retained quite similar values for the region as in the previous week (79). The statistics are supplemented by a school canteen from the Beroun region and a children’s home from the Benešov region.
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Completely closed schools in connection with coronavirus registered four hygienists in Central Bohemia – two each in Mělnicko and Prague-West; there were 456 closed-class schools (most understandably in the immediate vicinity of the metropolis). A total of 1,897 positive people recorded hygienists, with a clear predominance of pupils or students (1712). There were 179 teachers with a confirmed infection: most in Prague-East (41), Prague-West (29) and in the Mladá Boleslav region (24). Six cases of positivity are based on other school staff, classified as technical and economic staff. Compared to cases, only half of the teachers remained positive at home due to quarantine: 92; most in Prague-East (35) – and more than ten were still reported by Prague-West (15), Mělnicko (14) and Nymburk (11).
The sum of quarantines for pupils and students in climbed to 22,851. half a thousand.
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