COE suspends return to face-to-face classes for students who had to enter in December and January due to the threat of the omicron variant

Faced with the threat of the variant of the coronavirus, omicron, the Government modified the dates for the return to face-to-face classes on a mandatory basis in fiscal, fiscal, municipal and private educational institutions.

Last November 22th they returned the technical and rural baccalaureate (15 to 17 years old).

In total there would be 402,309 students high school (technical and rural).

A second group had to be integrated December 6-7, the rest of the baccalaureate, eighth, ninth and tenth (12 to 17 years old) and a third group, the January 17, 2022, the elementary basic education (6 to 12 years old).

It is estimated that there are 1,469,802 high school and upper secondary school adolescents (from eighth to tenth).

The return of this second group was subject to each canton having reached at least the 85% of the vaccination rate in the population between 12 and 17 years old.

COE approves the progressive return to face-to-face classes as of November 22

Juan Zapata, president of the national Emergency Operations Committee (COE), after a meeting with government authorities, indicated that the technical and rural baccalaureate students, which includes some 400,000 students, will be maintained, but there will be constant monitoring.

Added that there is technical baccalaureate that return to virtuality such as computing and accounting.

“And those who, for example, the (baccalaureate) agricultural that cannot be made virtual, “he added.

In a first evaluation made by the Government, a 70% of students of the technical and rural baccalaureate it would have been integrated into the classrooms between Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd of November.

As reported the Minister of Education, María Brown Pérez, were 1,731 educational institutions who had returned to classes in the format of 100% capacity in technical high schools and rural high schools, which corresponded to 281,855 students

The official added that this return of 100% of the capacity in high school had occurred in a very normal way Without inconveniences.

Educational regime

Due to the new dates decided by the national COE, in the case of the Costa regime, student activities will end virtually and the return to classrooms with 100% capacity will be on May 3 (school year 2022-2023).

Due to the omicron variant, booster dose vaccination against COVID-19 is advanced for December 1

In the Sierra and Amazon, groups two and three, they would return on February 7 2022 (second semester 2021-2022), if the epidemiological situation allows it.

These provisions, according to a statement from the Ministry of Education, are for the cantons with 85% of full vaccination in the population aged 5 to 17 years.

On November 16, the national COE He had announced the obligatory and progressive return to classrooms in the country.

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Zapata indicated that the national COE denied LigaPro’s request to increase the presence of the public in the stadiums and the two endings of the National Championship will be held with a capacity of 50 %.