Coronavirus, 20-day-old baby and her mother test positive: the mayor of Piano di Sorrento proposes to close schools for a month.
The mayor of Piano di Sorrento, Vincenzo Iaccarino, launched an appeal on his Facebook page, a reflection with the parents of his fellow citizens' students, in which, analyzing the general situation, he asks to close schools of all levels for a month. In addition to being the city administrator, Iaccarino is also a doctor and his concern is to block the growth of cases. "This morning I was informed by the Prevention Department of the ASL that 19 more of our fellow citizens tested positive for Covid 3, the father of the 2 children aged 4 and 6 who I told you about yesterday and a young mother with her little girl of just 20 days hospitalized at the Secondo Policlinico in stationary conditions to whom we give a big hug" he writes.
And then he adds: “I now invite you to reflect, free from prejudice, on the health situation we are experiencing due to the sharp resurgence of the pandemic and which sees nursery school children forced to undergo nasopharyngeal swab tests to verify their possible positivity to covid, as cases have occurred involving classmates or family members.
Let's keep in mind that the swab does not provide immunity, so there is also the prospect of having to repeat it with all the trauma that ensues.
No one intends to prejudicially suspend "in-person school": this must be clear, just as we share all the considerations that are freely made on the irreplaceable value of teaching in the classroom. Now, however, we are talking about a health emergency that involves families and students not only within the school, but in all a series of external collateral activities on which it is absolutely necessary to act in a restrictive sense to prevent the situation from degenerating and getting out of control. This is first and foremost in the interest of the students and their families, reducing the risk of having to swab dozens and dozens of people with all the problems associated with mandatory quarantine.
Any decision to temporarily suspend in-person activities for 1 month will obviously also affect all external association and sports contexts, i.e. places where gatherings occur spontaneously and dangerously.
We will increase the checks by the Municipal Police on this front because we cannot afford the luxury of "chain infections". Finally, keep in mind that we are also in the season in which the traditional flu occurs, so the two factors added together can really trigger an explosive mixture.
I therefore ask you to "think" about the social and health aspects of the problem I am referring to, putting aside other considerations that at this time become subordinate and risk only worsening a situation that we can objectively already consider critical.
As always, we are working to protect everyone's interests and the decisions that we Mayors will take this evening will go exclusively in this direction, nor could it be otherwise".
Article published on 11 October 2020 - 16:03
