Covid, the battle over back to school continues. Toti: 'keeping schools closed is of little use'

Regions in no particular order on the re-covering of schools.

The center-right Ligurian governor Giovanni Toti takes sides for the reopening. 

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. A child does not go to school while mom and dad go to the office but that same child can go to the gym, play soccer and eat pizza with your friends? It's surreal. " The Ligurian governor and regional councilor for health Giovanni Toti said this during Domenica In, on Rai1. "I would have made simpler rules: if you are ill, stay at home while you have a fever then wait two days as a precaution and then go back to class - he concluded -. And if your classmate is well, he continues to go to school".

also shares the same opinion .

"Not reopening the schools would be a serious mistake. Closing them did not help. The young student stays at school for 5 hours and is constantly monitored: he has a mask, he has the distance, there are the teachers .... The remaining 19 hours where you believe that the boy go? he will go around, to the gardens and to the oratory. Today we cannot stop this virus, it is faster than us. If we close the schools we close the problem 10 days then we start all over again ". The Genoese infectious disease specialist told Domenica In, on Rai1. "Let's avoid escaping forward and getting the boys to lose out - he concluded - it seems to me that they are the ones who have lost most of all with this nonsense of the school surrogate that is Dad".

Instead, the governor of Calabria

for the postponement . "In Calabria we are vaccinating in schools. We are the first region in Italy to increase vaccinations compared to the targets of General Figliuolo thanks to the sense of responsibility of families and children. Perhaps it would have been appropriate to postpone the reopening of schools for 15 days. It is not so it was, but it is not the time for controversy ". Roberto Occhiuto, president of the Calabria Region, told Tg2. 

The management of positive students at school will fall on an "already highly stressed" health system, in the context of "atavistic shortage of health personnel in every sector, which is the consequence of choices made in other times". This was noted by the president of the Marche Region

in a post on facebook dedicated to the restart after the end of year holidays. "The Regions had asked the central government to postpone the resumption of school after the holidays because the current regulations expressly prevent, both in the yellow and orange zones, from taking measures with respect to Dad" explains Acquaroli, underlining that the postponement had been requested from "many". But "the epilogue of the story is there for all to see. The same central government has deemed it not possible to extend the return to class for all and also the consequences, in the case of positive students, will have to be managed by an already highly stressed system" he remarks , recalling the "atavistic shortage of health personnel", the result of "choices made in other times".

"Back to school is important as it is a safe place with masks and distance. The face-to-face lessons are also important from the point of view of social equity: there are realities in the area, like some areas in the south, where there is there is still little possibility of accessing the wifi ".

This was stated by the extraordinary commissioner for the Covid emergency,

Figliuolo, on the 'Half an hour more' program on Rai3.