The measure "Test to stay" in schools will not be implemented from Monday, since as it was decided during yesterday's meeting held with the participation of the Ministers of Health and Education, the implementation will be preceded by a meeting with the three educational organizations which expressed their strong protest against the relevant decision of the Council of Ministers.
Regarding the procedure to be followed, the Ministry of Health yesterday entered a road race in order to strengthen its capabilities and increase both the staff and the mobile sampling units, in order to serve the needs that will arise daily in schools. Primary and Secondary Education.
It was also decided that the measure would be optional. That is, parents / students will be able to choose whether to stay in school when they are declared as close contacts by applying the practice of "Test to stay" or whether they will stay at home.
It was also clarified that the "Test to stay" will only concern close contacts and not the entire coronavirus positive student section. That is, it will only apply to children who are still defined as close case contacts in a school department based on the protocol that is already in force.
Based on what was discussed yesterday, the sampling in the schools will be undertaken by the Ministry of Health and in particular, the students who will be defined as close contacts of their classmate who was diagnosed positive for the virus, will be examined, either by mobile unit staff who will be supervised schools, either through mobile units which will be parked in the schools from a very early age where this is possible, or will be able to go to sampling points of the Ministry of Health which will operate before the start time of the courses before their transfer to school and the process will be repeated for five days. In case a new positive incident arises from the children / contacts, the same procedure will be followed as for the children who will be defined on the basis of a protocol as their close contacts.
The Ministry of Health, as we are informed, has already announced a competition in order to secure the necessary number of qualified samplers who will staff the additional sampling units and will have the school units under their supervision.
For the schools operating in the region, the Ministry of Health will ensure that there are sampling units available to meet their needs.
In any case, details on how to implement this measure will be given in the coming days and when the Ministry of Health completes its relevant planning and meets all the estimated needs.
According to the data provided by the tracking unit during yesterday's meeting, the number of close contacts that are declared every day and concerning education, is less than 2000. Given the fact that for the next 15 days the Lyceums will not operate, the This number is expected to be much smaller during the first stages of the implementation of this program, which was described as "pilot", the number of close contacts.
As stated in a relevant announcement of the Ministry of Health, the educational organizations will receive relevant information in a meeting that will take place on Monday, when the start date of the implementation of the measure "Test to stay" will be announced. The aim is for the schools to remain safe and operational, giving children the basic right to education. "
Automatic release in 10 days
The data change in the release of cases from isolation. Based on the information received by all GESY personal physicians, on the tenth day after the sampling of the positive result (ie from the day the person is tested and not from the day he / she is informed about the result), the affected people will automatically receive , through the electronic case registration platform, a text message informing them that on the 11th day they will be released from quarantine. The personal doctors will be able, through the electronic platform, to increase the isolation days of their patients up to 20 days in case they deem it necessary due to symptoms.
Specifically, and as mentioned in the written briefing received yesterday by the personal doctors:
. From January 17, the release of positive individuals will be done automatically from the case registration platform after completing the 10 days of self-limitation from the date of sampling of the positive result.
ΗμερομηThe date of onset of symptoms will not be taken into account while the release process will take place without the participation of personal physicians.
Positive people should continue to inform their personal physicians about their positive outcome so that their health can be monitored as well as the issuance of their sick leave where necessary.
ΠεριπτώσειςIn cases where the personal physician deems that the self-limitation of the case should be extended due to persistent symptoms or in the case of immunosuppressed patients including hemodialysis, the period of self-limitation may be extended by the personal physicians up to 20 days.
PIs continue to have access to the data platform where they can see the sampling date of the first positive outcome of the case and the expected release date of their patient and extend the restriction period if they deem it necessary.
ΠροσωπPersonal doctors have the right to increase but not to reduce the case limitation period and they will be able to do so until the 10th day otherwise a text message will be automatically sent to the patient stating the 11th day as the day of release.
ΆτομαFor people who needed inpatient care, their release will be done automatically again by the system taking into account the patient's discharge date and not earlier than 20 days.
For those who show a positive result after a self-test and if they contact their personal doctor and do not proceed with a confirmatory examination on their own initiative, "personal doctors will schedule, through the platform, laboratory molecular testing for confirmation of the positive result ".
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