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Local public hospitals will evaluate whether it is necessary to decree quarantines in classes where there are children positive for the new coronavirus.
The Italian government will provide free masks every day to more than 10 million students, teachers and other school personnel as part of its efforts to organize back to school, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced.
When reporting on how the return to classrooms will be organized after the suspension of classes due to the coronavirus pandemic, Conte said that except for children under six years of age, everyone must wear masks during trips within schools, but they can take them off when the distance of one meter is respected.
Conte added that it will be the parents who should measure the temperature of their children at home.
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Along with him, the Minister of Education, Lucia Azzolina, and the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, appeared at a press conference.
Speranza explained that in the event that a student tests positive for the virus, an automatic quarantine for the entire class is not expected to be activated, but will depend on the hospital in charge.
"The hospital in the area will be in charge of evaluating the case and studying the contacts the young man had.
They will take the measures they consider after doing the necessary tests and, if it works, decreeing quarantines, "he said.
The Minister of Education, for her part, faced the problem of where to put students who do not enter the classrooms because of the security distance, and that the government indicates that between July and August it will add one million students outside of them.
«Today there are 50,000.
But they will go to school and will have to keep the mask, "he said.
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Azzolina said that thanks to the work carried out in recent months, more than 5,500 classrooms were obtained and another 4,800 were expanded.
All this thanks to the more than US $ 100,000 million that the government made available to rent the premises that were necessary.
In addition, to help the teaching staff, they will hire another 70,000 teachers.
Prime Minister Conte recalled that at least 53 countries have asked Italy for advice on managing the pandemic, considering the model they have followed as "exemplary".
Italy managed to reduce the number of infections in almost two months to less than 400 per day, when at the worst moment of the crisis these reached more than 6,000, which made Italy one of the countries where the pandemic hit the most force.
In recent weeks, daily infections have not exceeded 2,000 a day.
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