School, to be readmitted after Covid symptoms mandatory double swab

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25 September 2020 If the test is positive - reads the guidelines of the Ministry of Health - to return to the community it will be necessary to carry out, as required by the current criteria, two swabs (molecular biology test) at a distance of 24 hours each from the other.

With a contextual double negative, the pupil or school operator - explains the circular - will return to school with proof of recovery and clearance to enter or return to the community.

In the event of a diagnosis of a disease other than Covid-19, the person will remain at home until clinical recovery. 

 "In the presence of suspicious symptoms", including over 37.5 degrees of fever, "the pediatrician or family doctor promptly requests the diagnostic test" for the diagnosis of Covid-19 to students and school workers "and communicates it to the Department of prevention, or to the service in charge on the basis of the regional organization ".

The Ministry of Health foresees this in the new circular of the Directorate General for Health Prevention, which outlines the "most frequent scenarios with respect to the occurrence of Covid-19 cases and outbreaks in schools" and gives "indications both for the containment of the epidemic and to ensure the safe continuity of didactic and educational activities ".

In case of suspicious symptoms, therefore, the swab or, when available, other tests for the diagnosis of Covid-19 in students, teachers and school operators must always be promptly performed, which - underlines the circular - have a preferential lane.

The text describes four scenarios, which "contribute to defining a 'suspected case', also based on the assessment of the treating physician" and that is if "a pupil has an increase in body temperature above 37.5 degrees C or symptoms compatible with Covid-19 "at school or at home, and if" a school worker has an increase in body temperature above 37.5 degrees C or symptoms compatible with Covid-19 "at school or at home".

The pediatrician o the doctor request the diagnostic test, the Department of Prevention, or the service in charge on the basis of the regional organization, provides for the execution. If the case of Covid-19 is confirmed, the Department "takes action to investigate the epidemiological investigation and the consequent procedures ".

After" the confirmation of healing, with the execution of two swabs at a distance of 24 hours, one from the other, negative results, the pediatrician or the family doctor issue the at

test of clearance for entry or return to the community '".

On the other hand, in the case of "pathologies other than Covid-19, with negative swab", the pupil or the operator will still remain at home until clinical recovery, following the instructions of the pediatrician or doctor who "will draw up a certificate that the subject can return to school because the diagnostic-therapeutic and prevention path for Covid-19 has been followed, as required by national and regional documents ".