Daugavpils Regional Hospital is treating 19 patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and 11 employees who did not need hospitalization also became ill in the city municipality.
None of the 19 patients have a severe course of the disease. Most Covid-19 patients are between the ages of 50 and 70, although there is also a six-year-old patient in the hospital. In case of severe disease, oxygen therapy is used, which has proven to be effective.
In turn, 11 hospital staff are treated at home. The institution emphasizes that they became infected outside the medical facility from relatives or in public places. Thorough medical examinations are carried out among the sick medical staff to determine the chains of infection transmission.
The hospital has implemented a strict three-level safety protocol, which in certain cases provides for the use not only of protective masks, but also respirators and special protective shields, the municipality explained. Doctors are closely monitoring your health.
At the same time, the institution points out that some patients and visitors, whose arrival is, moreover, prohibited, behave dishonestly, do not wear masks, endangering others. Given this and other factors, electronic cards for hospital admission will soon be introduced.
There is also an extensive reorganization of the Center for Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis, which will be used almost entirely for the treatment of coronavirus patients. Patients are already being transferred to the main building. The exception will be patients with pulmonary disease who will be maximally isolated from people with Covid-19.
Currently, 31 pupils and 35 school employees in Daugavpils are suffering from Covid-19, referring to the statistics available on Monday, the city Education Department informs.
7th-12th grade students still study at a distance in schools, but for most 1st-6th grade students the learning process is provided in person. All students from 1st to 12th grade study remotely in one school.
There are also 30 classes at a distance from the 1st to the 6th grade, of which 17 classes have been designated as contact persons for the students of the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC). But in 13 classes, due to the lack of teachers, it is not possible to organize the learning process in person or partially remotely. In turn, 70 students study individually remotely in grades 1-6, who have been designated as contact persons by the SPKC.
Currently, 24 educators are quarantined because the SPKC has identified them as contact persons, of which only six educators have chosen to exercise their right to take an incapacity sheet.
Covid-19 currently has a total of 31 students, 27 teachers and eight technicians in the city.
The distance learning process in schools is provided by 564 teachers. In agreement with the school management, 168 teachers implement the distance learning process from home, but 396 teachers – from the school premises.
Six groups in four pre-schools also study remotely.
In the context of the current epidemiological safety restrictions, on-site adaptation classes for future first-graders in Daugavpils schools will not be organized until the end of the year, the Education Board has decided. In turn, schools, at their own discretion and possibilities, can publish information, tasks, worksheets for future first-graders on their websites, which parents can use for individual lessons with their child.
According to SPKC data, 224 patients with Covid-19 have been registered in Daugavpils in the last two weeks.
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