4 hours agoBack to school: An Israeli scenario to avoid necessarily
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Albania reopened schools this Monday with repeated calls by authorities to respect anti-Covid measures by teachers, children and parents. Statistics have proved that in all countries where schools have been re-opened (with the exception of closed Sweden) they have known in just a few days the increase of daily cases with David-19 and [...]
Albania reopened schools this Monday with repeated calls by authorities to respect anti-Covid measures by teachers, children and parents. Statistics have proven that in all countries where schools have been re-opened (with the exception of Sweden that did not close) they have recognised in a few days the rise of daily cases with Covid-19, and that rule is not expected to exclude Albania.
But the difference can be made in the intensity of new daily cases and further management of the situation. One example our country should not follow is Israel. The latter, after almost three months of isolation, decided that at the end of May it would reopen schools and universities and significantly ease restrictive measures
The opening of educational institutions arrived in the period when authorities reported low figures of new infections. Thus, on May 21, Israel reported only 16 new infections. The infection was still in the hearth and noncommunist, so similar figures accompanied almost all of May in this country.
But two weeks after the reopening of schools, new cases increased and the situation deteriorated at the end of July, where Israel reported 100 times more infected than on the May average - over 2 thousand people a day and the infection had turned into communitarian.
August maintained the July trend, while September further exacerbated the situation, reaching up to 4 thousand infected people reported on September 12th. This forced the country's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to leave Sunday and announce the return of the country's total isolation for three weeks starting on Friday.
If the Israeli scenario were repeated in Albania, the health system could end up in collapse. Albania currently reports about 150 cases a day, and the infection is classified as communitarian. If the same scenario appears according to Israeli figures, within 2-3 weeks Albania hypothetically could have 10 times as many daily cases and at the beginning of November with thousands infected. (SI)
