Wellington: When schools in New Zealand are preparing to return for the first term of office this year, Minister of Education Chris Hipkins on Tuesday announced 5,000 air purifiers had been ordered in an effort to prevent Covid-19 spread
“As we know, together with vaccination, testing, good cleanliness and physical distance, good ventilation is important in minimizing the risk of viral transmission which causes Covid-19,” Hipkins said in a statement.
Safe! You have managed to put your voteogin to see the school that has done a good job keeping fresh air moving through their classrooms, but opening doors and windows to get fresh air flow will not always be practical, the Xinhua news agency said.
The first 500 air purifiers are expected to arrive in March and the remaining 4,500 must be submitted in June and this will be used in areas targeted in several schools in the coming months, he said.
“To help school identify classrooms and other spaces that get good fresh air flow levels and no, the school will receive its own ventilation toolkit with portable CO2 monitors that they can use to help identify areas of concern and appropriate approaches to Increase ventilation.
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This 2,500 portable CO2 monitor is in addition to more than 8,000 existing internal environment monitors, or will soon be deployed, at school earlier this year, he added.
The initial observation of the joint study between the New Zealand Water Research Institute and Atmospheric and the Ministry of Education supported opening windows and doors as the best way to increase fresh flow of air in the classroom.
This study says that good ventilation removes air from inside and replaces it with clean air from outside, prevents potentially contaminated air buildup.
The CO2 level in a space is a good indicator of air freshness.
“This is align with the suggestions and views of international experts – there is no substitute for fresh air flow,” Hipkins said, adding there is also days when opening doors and windows is less effective, when there is no outside wind, or when it rains and school cannot open windows and doors as often as.
The ministry explores a simple system to help air quality and natural ventilation at school, he said.
