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Resumption of health-related schools is only authorized for practical and laboratory classes
The Belo Horizonte City Council (PBH) decreed this Thursday morning (24) the suspension of operating permits and location of educational institutions in the city. The measure applies to kindergartens, kindergartens and primary and secondary schools, higher schools and vocational training centers.
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The sole paragraph of the decree, however, authorizes the return to classes in health-related courses in the Belo Horizonte higher education schools for practical and laboratory classes, and also allows the return to activities in the institutions of technical education at a technical level. The decree signed by Mayor Alexandre Kalil (PSD) and published in the Official Gazette of the Municipality (DOM) entered into force immediately after its publication.
The decision to suspend the permits of school institutions in the capital of Minas Gerais was taken on Wednesday (23) shortly after the announcement that the State of Minas Gerais authorizes the return to classes of basic education – maternal, primary and high school– from October 5 in municipalities covered by the Conscious Mines Green Wave program.
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So far it is known that 218 cities in Minas Gerais will be able to reopen schools on this date. However, according to the Secretary of State for Health, Carlos Eduardo Amaral, the the presence of students will not be mandatory. A The resumption of activities in institutions of graduation, postgraduate and free courses can now occur in municipalities that are in the yellow wave. – which represents a medium level in flexibility policy.
Understand the PBH decree
Maintaining the level of circulation of the coronavirus, without increasing it, is the main argument of the Belo Horizonte City Council to suspend permits for daycare centers, schools and higher education institutions. Through the decree, the municipality affirms that the return to face-to-face classes in the capital of Minas Gerais could accelerate the transmission of the virus, impacting the safety of the elderly and people at risk involved in the school routine of children and adolescents. The first part of the decree rescues the discussion about the fact that, many times, the infection can be asymptomatic in people up to 19 years of age.
“The school environment, mainly made up of children and young people, who due to the immunological characteristics, when they contract Covid-19, tend not to show symptoms or show mild symptoms, but continue as transmission vectors, and can accelerate in the pandemic circulation” , details the city in the decree.
The municipality also alleges that the impact of the school sector on the circulation of people would affect the maintenance of social isolation, so it is up to PBH to suspend to ensure the health of teachers and other employees of educational spaces that would be exposed to a great amount of people. students in places where distance is impossible, such as the classrooms themselves.
The Municipality of BH also defends that more discussions be held so that face-to-face classes can resume “safely for students and teachers.” Regarding the relationship between going back to school and the liberation of spaces for commerce, the municipality stated: “the frequency of clients and users of the activities released are discretionary and occasional, not implying intense and prolonged contact between people.”
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