The way to break the isolation for children: the battle for the deadline and what will the outline look like?

Under the new outline, all children aged 0-18, even those who are not vaccinated, will be able to be released from isolation after contact with a verified patient five days later, subject to antigen testing.

The prime minister is interested in implementing the new outline this week, while the Ministry of Health wants to wait until the end of the month

Meirav Cohen

19/01/2022

Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 22:06 Updated: Thursday, January 20, 2022, 05:58

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In the video: The corona procurator clarifies that the decision to shorten the isolation was made out of risk management (Photo: GPO)

The Ministry of Health has formulated an outline for stopping isolation for students in the education system.

Recently, many voices have been heard calling for such a move, and the prime minister has made a decision to adopt the proposal.

However, he wants to apply the outline later this week, while the Ministry of Health urges Bennett to wait ten days, until the end of the month, a date when it is estimated that the omicron will also begin to decline.

According to the proposed outline, all children aged 0-18, including vaccinated and unvaccinated, will be able to be released from isolation in case of contact with a verified patient.

This is after they have undergone a series of antigen tests on the first, third and fifth day after exposure, provided they have not started to develop symptoms.

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The tests of children in early childhood will be the responsibility of the parents.

In the schools, the tests will be performed by the corona trustees, within the walls of the institutions.

The question that still remains open is whether unvaccinated children will need to undergo an institutional antigen test, similar to unvaccinated adults, or whether all of the tests will be home-made.

The new layout is specifically designed to protect preschoolers, who are not eligible for vaccination and who frequently go into isolation.

This is despite the fact that according to studies, children at these ages who become infected are usually only with a mild illness.

The outline currently used in the education system is similar to the outline that exists in the rest of the economy, in which vaccinated people are entitled to be released from isolation.

However, at the age of 0-5 it is not possible to get vaccinated, and the number of verified in this stratum is very large and causes many to go into isolation, even though they do not feel the symptoms as much.

Three weeks ago, the green class outline that reduced the number of isolations was abolished, but was in dispute between the Ministries of Education and Health and was therefore not extended.

The new layout is an upgrade of the old one, and is different in that it applies to all ages, regardless of the color of the traffic light of the locality where the students live.

A question that remains open: Will unvaccinated children need an institutional examination.

Queue for tests in Tel Aviv (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Education Minister Nitzan Horowitz announced today that his office is holding a discussion on the issue of isolation in the education system. He said he sees great importance in getting students to classrooms, noting that the education system has not closed "all the way." The chairman of the Constitution Committee, Gilad Karib, also joined the readers in abolishing the isolation. The children, but at this time there is no room for distinction between the children within the classrooms

. In the last three months, whether in two doses or in a booster dose, they were better protected than children who were not vaccinated,Or children whose vaccination has expired.

According to the announcement, children aged 5-11 who were vaccinated with two doses in the last two months were twice as protected from the disease than children who were not vaccinated at all.

Teenagers ages 12-15 who were vaccinated with a booster in the past two months were four times protected from teens who were not vaccinated at all.

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