School, headmaster Santa Maria Ausiliatrice: “Only schoolmate in quarantine? It’s a random idea”

The reduced quarantine and limited to the classmate of the positive “is a random idea. Vaccination and frequent screening with swabs leave me more serene”. Commenting on the hypothesis of the Lazio region to avoid dad is Sister Maria Paola Murru, Director of the Salesian Institute of Santa Maria Ausiliatrice, in Rome, subjected last year from October to May to monthly screening with swabs of the school population. An experiment, carried out in the capital also at the IC Regina Elena, and coordinated by Alberto Villani, head of the Complex Operating Unit of General Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases of the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, which “made us travel safely. We have about 800 enrolled, 370 in high school. The percentage of positives was minimal, it didn’t even reach 10% “. “I have just returned from Ireland – says the principal – where currently only the positive remain at home. It is a European trend, on the German model” which in Italy is not convincing because the overall picture is uneven even for peer schools: “often there are no useful spaces to guarantee distancing”. Furthermore, vaccination “is an extra guarantee”, but not a sufficient condition to avert the risk of contagion. Therefore, it is better to opt for frequent tampons and on the supervision of health facilities that “worked for us”. “Life must resume and continue with caution”, comments the Headmaster and concludes: “the promised extra funding has not yet been disbursed, about 50 million of a covid fund to be divided among all the peers, which could be used to screen the population scholastic “. (by Roberta Lanzara)