Covid, Cts: “School in the presence, masks even indoors”

“The CTS considers it ‘absolutely necessary’ to give priority to face-to-face teaching for the 2021/2022 school year, not only as an essential tool for the training of students, but also as an essential and indispensable moment in their path of psychological development, of structuring of the personality and the habit of socialization, the lack of which can negatively translate into a situation of social and psycho-affective deprivation of future generations “. It can be read in the minutes of the Scientific Technical Committee in response to questions from the Ministry of Education. Teaching in the presence is a priority but with the recommendation of “distancing, but where this is not possible, – the report reads again – it remains essential to maintain the other measures, starting with the use of surgical masks in closed places”. Vaccination constitutes, to date, the fundamental public prevention measure to contain the spread of Sars-CoV-2. It is therefore essential to avoid having to give up teaching in the presence, as well as other socialization activities in the school environment. , and at the same time to prevent outbreaks of infection, promote vaccination in schools, both for school staff (teaching and non-teaching), and for students “, notes the Technical Scientific Committee. “The pursuit of these objectives justifies, in the opinion of the CTS, the inclusion / maintenance of school staff among the categories to be vaccinated as a priority and, given the recent approval of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine from 12 to 15 years, the inclusion, in these categories, students aged 12 or over “, the CTS again writes in the minutes.