The announcement was made this Tuesday morning in Guayaquil.
The national Emergency Operations Committee (COE) approved the mandatory and progressive return to classrooms in the country, based on the epidemiological situation and the progress of vaccination against COVID-19.
The announcement was made this Tuesday morning at the Vicente Rocafuerte fiscal college, where it was announced that this Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday there will be a massive vaccination in Guayaquil, Quito and Loja.
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Juan Zapata, chief of the COE, said that the return will be from November 22 with new protocols.
It was announced that support in educational units will be strengthened so that students who have not yet received the biological can do so.
Likewise, the authorities indicated that 85% of the population will soon be reached with vaccination and that this will place the country among the first in the region to achieve that goal.
The Minister of Health, Ximena Garzón, indicated that at the moment 78% of the population has been immunized from the age of 5.
This is the approved calendar for the return to compulsory and progressive face-to-face classes in Ecuador
Among the population aged 12 to 16 years, the first dose has been applied at 76%; from 5 to 11 years old, 45% have been reached with the first vaccine.
In Vicente Rocafuerte the vaccination will be maintained for this last age group.
Last week, the Ministry of Education anticipated that it would present a proposal and a schedule for the return to classes.
The Minister of Education, María Brown Pérez, mentioned that the return will begin on November 22 with students from technical high schools and from rural areas. In this group there are 402,309 students, between 15 and 17 years old.
The epidemiological situation and the state of the school infrastructure will be decisive in defining the obligation to return to face-to-face classes.
A second group will return on December 6: it corresponds to the rest of high school (urban) and higher basic education (eighth, ninth and tenth). Quito students must return on December 7th. With this, 1’872,111 students will be in classes.
The third group will be that of students from initial to basic education (from 5 years to 11 years), on January 17, 2022.
That State portfolio has indicated that the obligation is for the campus that has the permission to operate in person. The Ministry pointed out that private schools that want to expand their academic offerings, as a distance modality, can request authorizations.
The minister said that the Ministry will have two campuses in Quito and Guayaquil to serve students who cannot attend face-to-face classes. For that, the parents must request the transfer. (I)
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