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Jeong Eun-kyung’s embers attended class … Ministry of Education “will increase primary school attendance”
Park Jung-mi, Busan.com Reporter [email protected]
Check-in: 2021-01-24 06:57:59Revision: 2021-01-24 07:39:02Published: 2021-01-24 07:39:12
The head of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), Jung Eun-kyung, will attend a meeting of the Security and Disaster Countermeasures Headquarters for Corona 19 at the Seoul Government Complex on the morning of 22. Yunhap news
Although the dissemination of Corona 19 continues, the number of students attending the school is expected to increase in the new semester of this year. Also, it is hoped that the opening of the school will not be postponed like last year.
It was Jung Eun-kyung, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Defense Countermeasures Headquarters) who set the class on fire. In a work in which he recently participated as a co-author, he highlighted the need to attend school, noting that, as a result of a survey of confirmed cases of children and adolescents aged 3 to 18 years between May and July of last year, only the 2.4% of the cases were infected at school.
President Moon Jae-in also said at a New Year’s press conference on the 18th: “In the Corona 19 situation, mainly non-face-to-face classes are taking place, so the educational gap is widening. It is important. “. .
In an interview with Yonhap News, an official from the Ministry of Education said: “We plan to maintain the school policy according to the 5 steps of social distancing (even in the new semester of this year).” “We will expand the school day by expanding the provisions.”
For example, in the case of the lower grades of primary school, since distances were shortened even after the Chuseok holiday in October last year, many schools attended school every day or four days a week.
As a result, government-level discussions about school attendance are also increasing rapidly.
Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun discussed the issue of the extension of distance classes at the Disaster and Security Countermeasures Headquarters meeting on the 23rd and ordered: “The Ministry of Education should consult with the quarantine authorities to prepare the new semester class method and school quarantine strategy in advance. “
Kwon Joon-wook, head of the Countermeasures Headquarters of the Second Central Defense Division (Bang Dae-bon), also said: “We will actively participate in the discussion of the direction of the (school) quarantine by carefully assessing the risk of Corona 19 in the lower grades of primary school. “
He added: “The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the proportion of children and adolescents in the Corona 19 outbreak is around 8%, and the scale of transmission and the decrease in infectivity in those under 10 years, “he added. additional.
“However (content of the WHO ad) in Korea, it is pointed out that 16-18 year olds, who are middle and high school students, have more cases of group outbreaks than primary schools.” They told me not to happen, ”he explained.
Also, the postponement of the school opening in March for all students is not expected to be repeated this year as it was last year. An official from the Ministry of Education said: “This year there is a manual, so the opening of schools will not be postponed.”
Park Jung-mi, Busan.com Reporter [email protected]
