Pelarco: Covid-19 case detected in high school that will resume its classes on Monday



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On the same day that the Hernán Ciudad Inostroza School kicked off the voluntary return to classes in Pelarco, the mayor of the commune, Bernardo Vasquez (UDI), confirmed the existence of a positive case of Covid-19 at the Liceo de Pelarco, which resumes its activities next Monday.

In addition to defending its plan to return to the classroom, the authority explained that “within the essential aspects of the protocols, the PCR shot for all teachers, education assistants, aides and school transporters; which seeks to detect possible cases of contagion in time “.

“In this active search process, more than 200 PCR tests have been performed, reporting a positive case, which is an administrative teacher from the Liceo de Pelarco; establishment that hopes to receive the first students who wish to take advantage of this Voluntary Reinforcement Plan from Monday, October 5, “explained the community chief on his Twitter.

Therefore, Vásquez assured that having found this patient implies that “protocols have been followed as stipulated, detecting possible cases of contagion in time “.

Regarding the basis of his request to reopen the schools of this commune of the Maule Region, the mayor pointed out that, by being characterized “by a high level of rurality and low internet access“, its students experience” a wide educational gap compared to students in urban areas. “

In that sense, he stressed that all the levels of the different educational centers worked on the return plan, so that the parents who choose to add their children have insured “psycho-emotional and educational support, through a system that guarantees that those spaces they are sanitized and with the respective hygiene and safety instruments “.

The communal chief concluded his statement calling for “information, learning about the health measures that have been adopted in each educational establishment and reflecting as a family if they want to opt for this Voluntary Reinforcement Plan in person, considering the health and future of their children.”

The commune maintains only two active cases of coronavirus including the most recently reported in the high school, for which Vásquez reaffirms in this way that the local situation “is not the same as in large cities.



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