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“TO difficult decision to close schools again, in janeiro This year, it was not because they were less safe or less deserving of our trust, ”Tiago Brandão Rodrigues began by saying in the eventual commission to monitor the implementation of response measures pandemic of the illness COVID-19-19.
In his opening speech, the minister recalled last year and the list of measures decided by the Government to guarantee health security in schools, in its entirety pandemic.
These measures were described as ‘redundant’, adding that the tests mass and vaccination of teachers and non-teaching staff are “even more redundtoncia“in the sense that they add levels of security.
During the hearing, the government official was repeatedly questioned about the vaccination of professionals and one of the doubts raised by the deputy of the CDS-PP Ana Rita Bessa that’s what would happen Those who refused the vaccine.
“Vaccination for COVID-19-19 is optional. Being optional, there are no civil, labor or other rights that can be questioned due to non-vaccination, ”the minister stressed.
On the other hand, and despite considering vaccination “absolutely central to achieving group immunity”, Tiago Brandão Rodrigues also said that in the educational context, this measure joins many others that guarantee the safety of schools.
The same argument was used when asked about the campaign. tests, do notscope from which the diagnostic tests will be performed COVID-19-19 in all schools in mainland Portugal in the first week of reopening, and then repeated in the highest risk areas.
On the subject, the deputy Cláudia André, from PSDI wanted to know why projections They are carried out in the first week of face-to-face classes, and not before returning, thus avoiding possible infections.
“The question could also be asked exactly on the contrary, “replied the minister, specifying that if the tests had been carried out in the previous week, it could be argued that” what has been done is no longer useful for now. “
During the hearing and making a retrospective last year, in which education had to continue to function despite the pandemic, the Minister of Education admitted that the executive “certainly will not have done everything right.”
“But we did a lot, the best that was possible and at a time that was never thought possible before,” he emphasized.
Later, and in response to the socialist deputy Porphyry Silva on the “continuity of the spirit of alliance with which the Ministry has faced pandemicThe official also said: “We would have done a lot worse if it hadn’t been for our natural partners.”
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