{"id":2961,"date":"2020-02-26T07:51:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T06:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2020-02-26T07:51:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T06:51:56","slug":"corona-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/?p=2961","title":{"rendered":"Corona Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While there is no need to panic, we kindly ask all stakeholders to read the information below, and to use <strong>common sense<\/strong>! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transmission can be avoided with proper hygiene and care. In any case, <strong>children who are sick, or showing symptoms of being sick, should be kept at home. <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In relation to the current Corona Virus scare, the Ministry for Education and Employment (MEDE) in collaboration with and following instructions from the Ministry for Health (MfH) has announced that anyone (staff or learners) who has visited these countries during the past days:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>China<\/li><li>Singapore<\/li><li>Hong Kong<\/li><li>Japan<\/li><li>South Korea<\/li><li>Iran<\/li><li>Italy (Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto, ie. all the north of Italy above Tuscany),<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>must stay at home for 14 days and if they develop symptoms of fever, cough or shortness of breath, they need to phone the Disease Prevention and Control Unit (IDCU) within the Superintendence of Public Health, Ministry for Health on Tel. no 21324086 and the unit will guide them accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also being advised that individuals who need help or clarification should phone their family doctor (GP). In addition, it is being instructed that the general public should not to go to Health centres or Casualty or visit their private GP but they should call their GP if they notice any symptoms mentioned above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also recommended that travellers should avoid non-essential travel to the above countries which are countries with presumed ongoing transmission of COVID-19 based on scientific evidence available provided by ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, the Ministry for Education and Employment will continue to keep schools and educational institutions adjourned with directions given from time to time by the MfH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your cooperation is highly solicited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there is no need to panic, we kindly ask all stakeholders to read the information below, and to use common sense! Transmission can be avoided with proper hygiene and care. In any case, children who are sick, or showing symptoms of being sick, should be kept at home. In relation to the current Corona &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/?p=2961\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Corona Virus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ccUg-LL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}