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The Teachers College regretted the statements of the Minister of Education, Raúl Figueroa, about the supposed lower risk that children and adolescents would have of contracting the coronavirus.
With figures from the Government itself, the union indicated that to date at least 790 cases of schoolchildren with Covid-19.
The union president, Mario Aguilar, indicated that as of April 21, the Health portfolio reported 168 infections of children between 0 and 4 years, 131 cases between 5 and 9 years, 187 infected between 10 and 14 years, and 304 cases between 15 and 19 years, reaching a total of 790 infections.
“With 790 cases reported as carriers of coronavirus, there are 48 cases of hospitalized people, children, youth and adolescents of school age and five of them have reached critical levels, with schools not operating in person, with minimal participation in these age ranges in social interaction: What would the levels of contagion be like? If we were operating the school system, obviously, it would be much larger, “said Mario Aguilar.
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Ana Luz Durán, dean of the Faculty of Education Sciences of the San Sebastián University, nor does it consider it appropriate to reopen the schools While the peak of the pandemic does not occur, he pointed out that it does not make much sense to want to leave for rural schools, since although they represent 30 percent of the school system, only 63 percent of them have less than 50 students, which represents only 8 percent of enrollment.
Meanwhile, the researcher from the University of Chile, Cristian Bellei, asked for prudence to the authorities of the Ministry of Education with the return to schools, noting that there is no conclusive information, on whether reopening schools is a good measure to combat the pandemic.
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