Schoolchildren in Saratov and Orel will be sent on early vacation due to SARS

In Orel, as well as in the cities of Saratov and Balakovo, Saratov region, school holidays will begin ahead of schedule – from Monday, December 26. Local authorities made this decision due to the increase in the incidence of SARS and influenza.

“Due to the increase in the incidence of SARS and influenza this year, the winter holidays for schoolchildren will begin ahead of schedule on December 26. On Saturday, December 24, the last day of school will be in educational institutions. For a number of schools that study in the 5-day school week, the last school day this year is December 23, ”said the Telegram City Hall of Saratov

The head of the Balakovo district of the region, Sergei Grachev, also said that local schoolchildren will go on winter holidays from December 26. “Such a decision was made today at a meeting of the interdepartmental sanitary and anti-epidemic commission. It is associated with an increase in the incidence of SARS and influenza,”— wrote is he.

A similar decision was made in the Orel administration. “In connection with the increase in the incidence among residents of Orel, Rospotrebnadzor recommended starting the winter holidays from December 26 … Children will have exactly two weeks to rest: from January 9, they, like the adult population, will have to return to their desks,” she said. press office city ​​administration.

Rospotrebnadzor informedthat over the past week, the incidence of SARS and influenza in Russia increased by 15.8%. Against the backdrop of an increase in the incidence in a number of regions, restrictive measures began to return. Decided to send schoolchildren on vacation ahead of schedule Nizhnevartovsk (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug) and Ozersk (Chelyabinsk region). In Bashkiria, partly returned mask mode. The burden on the ambulance service has also increased across the country.

Details – in the material “Kommersant” “The ambulance picked up the virus”.

Laura Keffer