• Arcuri also commissioner for the safe restart of schools

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July 09, 2020 Ten million masks per day. Many will be needed in Italian schools to resume teaching activities in attendance. This was said by Domenico Arcuri, CEO of Invitalia and extraordinary commissioner for the Covid-19 emergency and, a few days ago, also called to manage the return to school normal phase.

Arcuri spoke about it during an event organized by the Centro Studi Americani, in Rome, entitled "From the Covid-19 emergency to the relaunch of the Italian system", interviewed by Lucia Annunziata.

To reopen safely in September, schools need "two basic safety requirements - said Arcuri - personal protective equipment, masks, and acceptable distancing within the classroom" so "means that schools will need to be equipped with masks and we have already organized the possibility of providing all the schools in Italy with the number of masks necessary to distribute them and make them available free of charge to teaching staff, non-teachers and students ".

2 million tests for school staff
"Tonight we issue a call for a European public procedure to purchase 2 million serological tests to be administered to teaching and non-teaching staff before the reopening of the schools. To administer them we will use family doctors, ASL and health districts. The operation will be repeated during the year with intervals based on the evolution of the pandemic. " 

"We will have to buy 40-50% of the total of the desks"
"There are equipped schools and some to be equipped. We begin by thinking of having to buy 40-50% of the total of the desks". Commissioner Domenico Arcuri said so. "The more compatible equipment there is, the less space it will take. We are trying to understand with the ministry how many areas to use and how many single desks are already available."

"I had to settle the price of the masks first"
"I had to fix the price of the masks first, I tried to find other ways to solve the problems: to put citizens in the possibility of having this device at a normal price and to beat the shameful speculation that was going on. I should have looked at it sooner ... ". "Today - he added -" there are numerous competing channels for distribution, there are many models of masks, let's say that they can be purchased by anyone, by those who live in the penthouses and by those who live in the concierge: it is a simply basic consideration, it makes of a community a normal community, it is not a question of communism.

"" I fear a new wave, but more manageable "
" I fear the arrival of a new wave of infections. I think, however, that it will be very difficult to reject the drama of March, there will be ability to manage it better. "Said Domenico Arcuri, who then stressed that the coronavirus epidemic" is not over, it will be when they can be administered tens of millions of doses of vaccine in the world. "The commissioner also spoke of" overall relaxation "that is recorded around," I implore it to be conscious relaxation. "

Immune app under the imagined targets
 " The Immuni app does not have now reached the targets they imagined. The communication campaign is there and continues to exist. The main reason has to do with the phase of the cycle of the epidemic that we are experiencing which finds some understandable but non-shareable form of general relaxation ". The Immuni App" will help us a lot starting from the autumn ".

Azzolina:" Arcuri non will manage the resumption of the school year "
" The extraordinary commissioner is in no way in charge of managing the resumption of the next school year ". The Minister of Education, Lucia Azzolina, specified it during the question time in the Senate. instead, it only provides that, until the end of the state of emergency, it has special powers in relation to the purchase of instrumental equipment only, which may be necessary to contain and contrast the emergency in educational institutions "." The start of the next school year, as I specified several times - Azzolina underlined - instead, he is accompanied and constantly supported by the Ministry of Education ".