The decision in this regard was made at a meeting of the interdepartmental sanitary and anti-epidemiological commission of the city administration.
Children will study from home until January 21, provided that the incidence rate has returned to normal by then. Meanwhile, in Nizhnevartovsk the epidemic threshold for ARVI and influenza in the group of children aged 7 to 14 has been exceeded by 35 percent. Cases of measles are rare, but the disease itself is very contagious: if you are not vaccinated, if you come into contact with a sick person, the probability of getting sick is almost one hundred percent. That is why it was so important to transfer schoolchildren to a remote learning format.
The first case of measles among Nizhnevartovsk schoolchildren was recorded in November last year. Then it turned out that 54 schoolchildren in the city were not vaccinated against measles; After vaccination, they all returned to full-time education.
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Sergey Tokarev, independent chief specialist of the Ministry of Health of Russia for medical prevention in the Ural Federal District, Doctor of Medical Sciences:
“The main symptoms of measles are a temperature of 39 to 40 degrees, dry and harsh cough, severe weakness and headache. On day 2 to 4, whitish spots appear on the mucous membrane of the cheeks, on day 3 to 5 behind A red rash appears on the ears, neck and face, which spreads throughout the body after 6-7 days. The saddest complications after measles are the development of meningitis and encephalitis. Those who have not been vaccinated can get sick at any time age. As a rule, those who have been vaccinated are especially worried, it is not worth it. Even for those who were vaccinated during the Soviet era, although it is believed that the vaccine is valid for 20 years. In fact, everything is individual, immune “Protection can last longer. The reason for the measles outbreaks is that today the proportion of the population who do not vaccinate their children. Now the vaccine is reaching the regions. And parents have to think a hundred times whether it is worth risking their children’s health. their children.”
