Ensure that there is a space to temporarily, safely and confidentially isolate students and staff who become ill or develop symptoms of COVID-19 during the day until they can go home, make hand hygiene mandatory when entering and leaving school, creating a schedule for frequent hand hygiene, especially for the youngest children. The best way to reduce absenteeism is to closely monitor attendance and act quickly once a pattern is noticed. The daily school attendance of all students should be monitored, including students who participate in face-to-face and distance learning. Schools must use multi-level strategies to proactively support the attendance of all students.
In addition, schools must implement strategies to identify and differentiate interventions to support people at higher risk of absenteeism. Local data should be used to define the priority groups whose attendance has been most affected during the pandemic. Schools are encouraged to create an attendance action plan with a central emphasis on family participation during any school year. 14.If a teacher or student has been infected with COVID-19, improving ventilation can help prevent virus particles from accumulating in the air.
Use this interactive tool to see how particle levels change as you adjust the ventilation settings in your school and how to reduce particle levels. Vaccination is currently the main public health prevention strategy to end the COVID-19 pandemic. Promoting vaccination against COVID-19 can help schools safely return to in-person learning, as well as to extracurricular and sports activities. However, since many children are not yet eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the updated guidance emphasizes the most important prevention strategies for in-person learning, regardless of whether schools can implement all prevention strategies.
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