As.com When should children quarantine and in which cases should they stop going to school?

As.com When should children quarantine and in which cases should they stop going to school?
By beautifulmadam
16/11/2022
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As.com When should children quarantine and in which cases should they stop going to school?

Earlier this month, the Minister of Health and Social Protection, Fernando Ruiz, announced that children and adolescents who present symptoms of COVID-19 will have to maintain continuous isolation for 7 days, and not for 10 or 14 days, as was being done in December 2021. According to the official, the most important thing in these cases is that isolation be carried out as early as possible to cut off transmission.

The head of the Health portfolio also explained that it will not be necessary for those over 3 years of age to take a test, since the symptoms are already conclusive evidence of the possibility of the presence of an infection by the omicron variant. In the case of people who have comorbidities, those over 60 years of age or children under 3 years of age, they should consult their EPS or IPS for the respective follow-up, according to medical criteria.

Meanwhile, Ruiz pointed out that isolation in children must be avoided so that they receive classes and can return to the levels of education registered before the pandemic. "The emphatic recommendation, I repeat, emphatic of the Advisory Committee and also of the Expert Consensus is that the face-to-face education in the country should not be stopped," said Ruiz Gómez. Likewise, he insisted that children should be the last case in which isolation is conducted.

Ministry of Health insists on vaccinating minors

The director of Promotion and Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Gerson Bermont, called on parents to take their children to vaccination points against COVID-19 to guarantee a safe return to school, within the framework of the return of students to schools. "There is no more important process in the country today than the return of children to educational institutions," the official said.