Closed will be Monday (26.05.2025) schools In Athens, Thessaloniki, Serres and Crete. Local authorities have suspended courses as cases were detected streptococcus to children.
However, EDYY President Christos Hadjichristodoulou states that schools do not need to be closed but not to be disinfected for streptococci.
Another school in Rethymnon will remain closed for precautionary reasons, on Monday and new cases of streptococcus were found in Oreokastro Serres, Thessaloniki and in the Municipality of Minoa Pediada of Heraklion, Crete.
The alarm was sounded on May 20, when the news of the death of a 5 -year -old child in Thessaloniki became known.
EDYY President Christos Hadjichristodoulou is referring to ERTNEWS, to stop closing schools and stop disinfecting, explaining the reasons, the strength of Streptococcus, and the first signs.
Streptococcus does not survive on the environment or on surfaces, it needs the body. It is also understood for municipalities and parents wanting to do something to protect their children, with closed schools and disinfection, but they do not protect them and you can even do bad.
What do we need to do
First of all, any case that must remain at home at least 24 hours after taking antibiotics to stop broadcasting and then going to school.
At school we take measures of enhanced individual hygiene:
– hand washing
– Always avoid children sharing objects, water bottle, etc.
– Increased class cleanliness.
Two kinds of infections
“We as EDYY, because we saw that in European countries and here we had an increase after Covid, we set up a recording system for serious forms, for penetrating. In 2023 when we set up the network we had 90 cases, in 2024 we had 68 and until 22/5 we have about 24 cases, “says the EDY President and adds:
“The mortality is high, it is high, it is about 25% .1 In the 4 people who are about to die but it is the penetrating form. At the same time we have hundreds of other cases that do not have the seriousness of the penetrating form of streptococcus. “
The first signs
If we are talking about penetrating form, the child is very fallen.
It starts with sore throat and fever and makes high fever.
So the parents the next thing to do, if we have cases in a school, be alert and with the slightest symptom of their pediatrician.
So are teachers and teachers.
Mr. Hadjichristodoulou also divides the outbreaks into serious and less seriously:
“The serious ones are very heavy and evolve in a very fast time and have a 25%mortality. If you remember last year we had two deaths in Ilia last year, ”he recalls.
Closed schools
In a statement, the Municipality of Byron says that the 1st and 5th kindergarten “due to many outbreaks of streptococcus” will be closed on Monday.
At the same time, the Gymnasium and High School of the Serres Music School will remain closed on Monday due to confirmed streptococcus outbreaks. It is recalled that it has already been decided to suspend the 4th – 17th Elementary School of Serres and the 8th – 25th Elementary School of Serres, due to streptococcus outbreaks.
It will also be closed on Monday, for disinfection, after a case of Streptococcus, which occurred on a toddler, the school complex in Skra Square, Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, where the 5th and 13th Elementary School and the 27th Kindergarten are housed.
The 2nd Kindergarten of Atsipopoulou Rethymnon will be closed on Monday, as well as the Kastelli Kindergarten in Heraklion, Crete due to streptococcus outbreaks.