Use of air purifiers in school classrooms

The educational centers incorporate air cleaners in the classrooms in view of the commitment not to close the educational centers complementing the prevention measures in the second wave of the pandemic and with the arrival of winter.

Arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic

The arrival of the new coronavirus pandemic SARS -CoV-2 , which has been named COVID-19 , being that year in which the first case was detected, it almost completely stopped all activities in most of the world.

A halt that is strongly affecting the world economy, especially affecting the most vulnerable and developing countries.

Countries like Spain, which is highly dependent on tourism, have seen their economies seriously affected.

The confinement measures that were applied affected almost all sectors only allowing to continue with semi-normality to sectors where teleworking could be applied.

Many companies and educational centers have had to accelerate the incorporation of new & nbsp; technologies , which was already planned in the medium term, to allow them to develop their activity remotely.

Facing the second wave of covid-19 with more data

After having overcome the first wave of the pandemic and having spent months since it began, there is more data on how effective the different measures have been, knowing a little more about how this virus works and is transmitted.

With several viable vaccines in sight and with accumulated experience , some of the measures that had been taken at the beginning have been modified with the idea that the impact is less trying to achieve a balance between avoiding the spread of the virus and affecting at least economic activity.

The fact that many companies, especially the industry, can work in person , always complying with preventive measures to minimize the risk of contagion, must be accompanied by other measures so that these workers can move to their jobs: such as the fact that their children can go to school.

Risk of contagion in schools

Different studies have shown that children are not a notable contagion vector , the risk of contagion being lower the younger the age.

Most of the infected children have been infected by an adult, the number of infections being very little significant between children or from children to adults.

Measures to prevent the spread of covid-19 in schools

Even so the risk is never null , therefore, and in light of these evidences for this second wave, it has been decided, in most countries, not to close schools and to continue with their normal operation, complying with a series of measures such as:

• Temperature taken at the entrance of the school.
• Wear a mask when entering and leaving the classrooms.
• Cleaning hands with hydroalcoholic gel.
• Entry and exit in a staggered manner according to groups (bubbles) that usually correspond to the different classes.
• Reduction of the size of the groups to minimize the risk of contagion and reduce the number of students that should pass quarantine if there is a positive within the group.
• Maintain the safety distance between tables in the classroom.
• Periodic ventilation of the classrooms to relieve the environment of possible pathogens.

Ventilate school classrooms in winter

Come winter and the consequent drop in temperature , this last measure can become complicated because outside there can be really low temperatures exposing the students to an unnecessary cold.

In addition, the fact of ventilating the classrooms often makes the heating system work much more than normal , increasing energy costs considerably.

Use of air purifiers in classrooms

Some schools have begun to incorporate air purifiers with a & nbsp; Hepa & nbsp; filter in their facilities to avoid having to ventilate the classrooms so often, without stopping to do so, obtaining quite positive results. Read the news about the use of air purifiers in school classrooms.

These devices usually have various levels of filtering, with Hepa filters capturing the smallest particles, capturing particles from 0.3 microns, eliminating 99% of contaminants, including viruses.

An air purifier, contrary to what may be believed, does not require great maintenance nor is it excessively expensive.

By having several filter stages from larger to smaller particle size, this means that the most sensitive filters do not have to be changed so often, requiring in many cases that the first level filters only have to be cleaned.

Most air purifiers indicate the level of pollution in the air and usually work as needed.

A single purifier , depending on its power is capable of purifying a room large enough such as a classroom or even the school dining room.

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