Covid, news for nursery schools in Lazio: ‘bubble’ system suspended from September

News in sight for the reopening of nursery schools in September in Lazio. According to what Adnkronos learns, the contagion situation permitting, the so-called ‘bubbles’ system, decided at national level last year as part of the measures against the spread of coronavirus, is suspended. If the data on the infections allow it, therefore, the children will all return together to share the section without the division into small stable groups with the same reference educator, which characterized the year of attendance 2020-2021. In fact, as foreseen by a circular on the restarting of nurseries, sent to the Lazio Municipalities by the Regional Directorate for Social Inclusion – Family, minors and frail people area, “without prejudice to new national provisions relating to the socio-educational year 2021-2022 and to the trend of the epidemiological curve, starting from 1 September 2021 the so-called ‘bubble system’ provided for in point 6 of the ‘guidelines for educational services for children’ “adopted with an ordinance in August last year is suspended. On the other hand, many preventive measures already tested last year remain: the “daily detection at the entrance of the body temperature for all children, operators, and carers” and the impossibility of access to the structure in case of body temperature above 37 , 5 or symptoms attributable to Covid infection. Similarly, parents will be contacted for the removal of the child in case of body temperature above 37.5 during the day at the nursery. The organization of a “reception area, preferably external to the structure, will continue to be envisaged, beyond which access to parents or carers will not be allowed, where there will be a hydroalcoholic solution for the hygiene of the hands of children and their companions “. It also provides for “regulated access and exit on shifts for each group of children” to avoid gatherings. “Access to the structure by other people” (for example suppliers and maintenance technicians) “must be limited to the time strictly necessary, and in any case, before accessing the structure, their temperature must be measured, also for the latter the limitations to ‘access in case of body temperature above 37.5 degrees and they will have to wear a protective mask and provide for hand hygiene “, reads the circular again.