Azzolina: "Safe school, but there are and there will be cases", 402 infected professors and 2,348 students

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09 October 2020 "We are convinced that the school is a safer and more protected place than others", said the Minister of the School, Lucia Azzolina, during the dissemination of data on the infections that occurred in the school environment, collected through the monitoring carried out with the managers school and compared with the Higher Institute of Health.

"Because at school there are precise rules that students are following in an orderly manner, thanks also to the commitment of all the school staff", continued the minister.

"This is confirmed by the fact that the 'school outbreaks' classified by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità are numerically insignificant".

Azzolina added that "there are and will be cases of virus positivity, it is inevitable, but the measures we have introduced allow us to identify them promptly, including asymptomatic cases that otherwise could get out of control. Now - he continued - we must do the utmost effort to have rapid tests and limit quarantines, thus limiting inconvenience to families and guaranteeing all schools a good organization of teaching. It remains essential to maintain responsible behavior. For this reason I renew my appeal to prudence not only internally, but even and especially outside of school ". 

The Minister of Education, Lucia Azzolina, provided the data on infections at school on 3 October, collected through the monitoring carried out with school managers and compared with the Istituto Superiore di Sanità.

The students who test positive are 0.037% (2,348 cases);

the non-teaching staff who test positive is 0.079% (144 cases);

the teaching staff that test positive is 0.059% (402 cases). 

"I greet the girls and boys of #FridaysForFuture. I agree with your proposal to use the money from the Recovery Fund also for the school. This is what we will do, as I explained in Parliament in recent days".

Minister Azzolina wrote it on Twitter.