Many millions of Italian students resume the school, Monday, but several parts of the peninsula have postponed the return to deal with Omicron’s outbreak, disagree with the government.
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“In dispersed order.” This is one of the favorite titles of the Italian press at a time when nearly 7.5 million pupils of the peninsula resume, Monday, January 10, the path of the School after the Christmas holidays. It summarizes both the complexity of the measures decreed by the Government to contain the dissemination of SARS-COV-2 in schools, as is the very contrasting response of the regions. Thus, the president of Sicily, Nello Musumeci (right), decided to postpone three days the return to school, the time to evaluate the actual sanitary situation for the schools of the island. Its Calabria counterpart, Roberto Occhiuto (Forza Italia, moderate right), would have liked the return of classes to be deferred by two weeks against the rise in contaminations, before finally complying to the schedule set by the government.
But it is especially in Campania that the most radical measure has been taken. His governor, Vincenzo de Luca (Democratic Party, Left Center), signed, on January 7, a prescription now the closure of the schools until January 29 throughout the region. In a long video published on his Facebook account, Luca explained, his face, that Campania was, according to its terms, “the most at risk” region of the country against the wave of Omicron. This Monday, the region will still remain white, depending on the local typology, due to a lower incidence rate than in other regions (1,263 cases per 100,000 inhabitants for the last seven days. , against more than 1,700 cases on average national) and pressure on the hospital still bearable, with a resuscitation literacy rate of 11%.
This order resulted in a force test with the government. Asked Sunday night on Rai 3, the Minister of Education, Patrizio Bianchi, denounced a “bad and illegitimate choice”. A choice that caused the anger of many parents of students who filed an appeal before the administrative court. This one suspended on Monday the closing order. On the Facebook Account “Scuoue Appertes Campania” (“Campania Open Schools”), families did not hide their difficulties in keeping their children at home, denouncing the absurdity of this order, while restaurants, cinemas and cinemas and The gyms are open.
School dropout
known for his flowered language and his boiling nature – he had threatened to send the font disperse “to the flame launcher” the clandestine evenings during the confinement in 2021 – Vincenzo de Luca is not in his first assists of arms with Rome. On October 15, 2020, while Italy faced the second wave, Campania had been the first region of the country to close its schools. Furious, the Minister of Education at the time, Lucia Azzolina, had denounced a decision “gravissime”, arguing that the school “was the safest place of all”.
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