At the moment " Italy is among the countries that have adopted the most extensive and articulated measures ". "There is a circular from the Ministry of Health that explains all the cases point by point. I feel like reassuring students and families: school remains a place of inclusion so if there are no situations like those that someone has described we go to school. " So Education Minister Lucia Azzolina on the request of four Northern Regions to apply isolation for students returning from China. "We don't have an emergency for schools," he says on the sidelines of a meeting in Turin.
" I call on Northern governors to trust those with specific skills " to protect citizens from coronavirus infection, said Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of London, answering a question about the 4 governors' request to prevent school access for children. children returning from China.
Yesterday the governors of Veneto, Lombardy, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Trentino Alto Adige wrote a common letter to the Ministry of Health asking that the period of isolation provided for those returning from China also be applied to children attending schools. "There is no desire for political opposition, let alone ghettoization: we only want to respond to the anxiety of the many parents since the circular does not provide for measures in this sense," says the President of Veneto, Luca Zaia. The measures taken with respect to the risk linked to the coronavirus "protect the health of children and the population". This was stated by the Higher Institute of Health (Iss).
" When citizens' health is involved, they can be 10 years old or 80 years old are obvious caution ." So Matteo Salvini about the letter from the Northern League governors sent to the Ministry of Health with the request that children returning from China not return to class for two weeks as a precaution.