Corfu 7th Junior High purchases air purifiers to enhance protection from Covid
7th Junior High
10 Feb 2022
/ 19:26
CORFU. The first school in Corfu to purchase such devices.
Four classrooms of the 7th Corfu Junior High School, the first school in Corfu to purchase such devices, are now equipped with air purifiers, in order to provide the best possible health conditions to the pupils and teachers of the school during the pandemic.
The school building has 15 classrooms – 4 in the semi-basement, 3 on the ground floor and 8 on the first floor. The ground and first floor classrooms are well-ventilated, but the semi-basement classrooms have small windows which make it difficult to ventilate them well.
Before Covid, in the semi-basement classrooms there were laboratories and a gym, where children spent a total of 4-5 hours a week.
34 hours
“Due to the Covid protection measures we had to suspend the operation of the laboratories and the gym and turn them into classrooms. Thus, the semi-basement rooms were turned into classrooms, resulting in children being in them for 34 hours per week.
Last year, we put special knobs to open the small windows of these classrooms, but we noticed that the ventilation was still not good,” the school's Principal Dionysia Trontza told Enimerosi.
Last and this year, classes operated alternatively, in order not to burden the students. However, the problem remained, until Mrs. Trontza heard Professor Sariyiannis’ view on how useful air purifiers are.
Funding
Thus, she asked the School Committee for funding for the purchase of four air purifiers, which was immediately approved and the school was given €1,000 to purchase them.
The devices have been in the school since last Wednesday and they were placed in the semi-basement classrooms, where 100 children attend classes. The purifiers clean the air naturally and are effective in neutralising viruses (including Covid-19) thanks to the Hepa H13 filter and the innovative Plasmawave technology that creates hydroxyls and neutralises germs.
“We believe that this will improve the air in these classrooms and protect the health of the pupils and teachers as much as possible, since it is being challenged by the pandemic,” said the Principal.
The school building has 15 classrooms – 4 in the semi-basement, 3 on the ground floor and 8 on the first floor. The ground and first floor classrooms are well-ventilated, but the semi-basement classrooms have small windows which make it difficult to ventilate them well.
Before Covid, in the semi-basement classrooms there were laboratories and a gym, where children spent a total of 4-5 hours a week.
34 hours
“Due to the Covid protection measures we had to suspend the operation of the laboratories and the gym and turn them into classrooms. Thus, the semi-basement rooms were turned into classrooms, resulting in children being in them for 34 hours per week.
Last year, we put special knobs to open the small windows of these classrooms, but we noticed that the ventilation was still not good,” the school's Principal Dionysia Trontza told Enimerosi.
Last and this year, classes operated alternatively, in order not to burden the students. However, the problem remained, until Mrs. Trontza heard Professor Sariyiannis’ view on how useful air purifiers are.
Funding
Thus, she asked the School Committee for funding for the purchase of four air purifiers, which was immediately approved and the school was given €1,000 to purchase them.
The devices have been in the school since last Wednesday and they were placed in the semi-basement classrooms, where 100 children attend classes. The purifiers clean the air naturally and are effective in neutralising viruses (including Covid-19) thanks to the Hepa H13 filter and the innovative Plasmawave technology that creates hydroxyls and neutralises germs.
“We believe that this will improve the air in these classrooms and protect the health of the pupils and teachers as much as possible, since it is being challenged by the pandemic,” said the Principal.
