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A class at a school in Sanchinarro (Madrid), last September.
Students, teachers and non-teaching staff they will return to the classrooms in person on January 10 with a reduction of the anti-Covid restrictions: the unvaccinated will spend 7 and not 10 days isolated as before. Possibly, the only novelty of yesterday’s summit between three ministries and 17 CCAA is a clue of what ends up happening this course: the elimination of the quarantines. A draft of the Ministry of Health It proposes that in Infant and Primary it is not kept quarantine even if there is a contagion in the class and the children are not vaccinated. That is, yes, confine the positive student, but not the class. Some experts ask to monitor the symptomatic and support the measure of this draft in the, in general, low transmissibility and viral load of children together with the damages associated with coexistence, conciliation and mental health of the confinements themselves. But that does not mean that minors are not contagious and, in a wave of infections, however slight, that opening measure has not yet been taken. In the committees that advise Health there is discussion about maintaining quarantines in bubble groups or not. For this reason, yesterday, the draft was not chosen … But it was not ruled out either. The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, said that, for now, the quarantines remain as they are for the rest of the population, which is already a step, because in the educational field the isolations lasted 10 days. But he also said that he will do what the Alerts Presentation and the Public Health Commission, which are still debating the issue and are scheduled to meet this week. It was the Public Health Commission that issued on December 30 that general quarantines spend 10 to 7 days. The news could pivot on that Commission and the draft. Pilar Alegría, Carolina Darias and Joan Subirats, at a press conference in Moncloa. JAIME GARCÍAPOOL There is a tendency among experts to reduce isolations. «You have to go to the least possible quarantines because it has consequences. In USA there is a daily test to close contacts and the student is sent to class. The children go to class and the infections have not increased. Is named Test to Stay and it is a copyable model. Presence is a good decision. There are many infections in Spain, but we cannot make decisions in the educational field that are not made in others. Infections occur at Halloween parties, not in classrooms, which are safe places. Is the doctor Jaime Jesus Pérez, member of the Vaccination Society, deputy director of Public Health of Murcia and member of the Committee on Vaccines that advises the Ministry. Until further notice, unvaccinated students in contact with a positive and unvaccinated positives will be isolated for 7 days. Galicia He has already said that “not vaccinated” are also under 12 years of age with a dose because it is not a complete guideline.
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