Rapporti ISS COVID-19

Reports mainly addressed to healthcare professionals to cope with different aspects of the COVID pandemic. They provide essential and urgent directions for emergency management and are subject to updates.

They are published in Italian, but they all have an English abstract.
The complete list is available at https://www.iss.it/rapporti-covid-19.

Here follows a list of the reports available in full text in English.


Rapporto ISS COVID-19 n. 58/2020 Rev. English version - Operational guidance for the management of SARS-CoV-2 cases and outbreak in schools and kindergartens. Version of August 28, 2020


Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Operational guidance for the management of SARS-CoV-2 cases and outbreak in schools and kindergartens. Version of August 28, 2020.
Working Group: ISS, Ministero della Salute, Ministero dell’Istruzione, INAIL, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Regione Veneto
2020, ii, 21 p. Rapporto ISS COVID-19 n. 58/2020 Rev. - English version

This document, in anticipation of the reopening of schools in Italy (September 2020), is aimed at providing a practical support to policy makers, workers in schools and the staff of prevention departments of local health units involved in the monitoring and response to suspect/probable/confirmed cases of COVID-19, and involved in prevention strategies at community level. In this document, practical instructions are provided for the management of any cases or outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 inside schools and kindergartens using hypothetical scenarios in the absence, at the moment, of solid forecasting models.

Published 23/12/2020