In Kyiv, there is a worsening of the epidemic situation regarding the incidence of influenza and SARS, but it is not uniform for all districts of the city. In order to avoid a general suspension of the educational process and at the same time to prevent the spread of the infection, the city authorities gave each educational institution the opportunity to independently decide on the introduction of the so-called preventive quarantine. This was announced by the Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration, Hanna Starostenko.
"Today, we actively cooperate with the departments of education and health care of the KMDA, and we also receive operational information from the districts. As the indicators show, in general, the epidemic threshold for educational institutions has not yet been crossed. Currently, in Kyiv, the absence of children from educational institutions due to illness is 18%, but this is, as they say, "the average temperature in the ward." The largest number of absentees is observed in Shevchenkivskyi and Desnyanskyi districts, and the smallest in Obolonskyi and Podilskyi. Considering the current unevenness of the disease, we have decided to allow the local suspension of the educational process to begin," Hanna Starostenko said.
Thus, each educational institution was given the opportunity to independently make a decision regarding the suspension of the educational process in the absence of 20% children from the total number of students due to flu and other respiratory diseases, both at the school and class level, and also bear responsibility for the decisions made . Kindergartens will not be closed.
"I would like to emphasize that currently it is important to carry out elementary sanitary and anti-epidemic measures, such as ensuring compliance with standard indicators of air temperature, ventilation, air disinfection with the help of bactericidal lamps, as well as providing conditions for isolating children in case of detection of signs of an infectious disease, etc. And what is no less important is to limit the holding of sports, mass cultural and other events in closed premises," said Hanna Starostenko.
