New indications to schools on Covid case management, minus Dad

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 6 - The new protocol for managing contacts in Covid cases and an accompanying note with directions for principals have been sent to schools. The note - explains the Ministry of Education - was drawn up with the contribution of the Higher Institute of Health, the Ministry of Health, and the Regions. The measures introduced by the document, through the collaboration between schools and local health authorities, "favor the provision of school services in the presence, support the school manager in the initiatives to be taken in the presence of positive Covid-19 cases and allow to make it as homogeneous as possible, at national level, the prevention measures to be implemented by the prevention departments ". The isolation of cases,the quarantine of contacts and the timing for returning to class are the responsibility of the health authorities. But until their intervention, "in the immediate knowledge of the positive case", the Institute will activate a "standardized" procedure, which does not involve any discretionary evaluation of a health nature. (HANDLE).