162 campuses with infrastructure damage will not receive students in face-to-face classes; Ministry will implement contingency plan

In the national territory there are 162 educational institutions that, due to infrastructure damage, will not be able to receive students in face-to-face classes. These are facilities that, due to lack of maintenance or damage caused by rains or natural disasters, are not currently in a position to be used.

This was stated this Wednesday by the Minister of Education, María Brown, during the session of the national Emergency Operations Committee (COE), in which new provisions were announced in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“These are the institutions where the contingency plans will be implemented and specific plans will be designed to guarantee the continuity of the education of the enrolled students,” explained the Secretary of State.

He added that as of this Wednesday, an option will be enabled on the website of the Ministry of Education for citizens to know what the institutions are and in what city and province they are located.

In the Costa-Galapagos regime until March 11thend date of the 2021-2022 school period, in localities with a yellow and green traffic light, educational establishments of all supports must offer the option of attendance in all grades.

Meanwhile, the Sierra-Amazonía from the February 7th It will return to normal presence in the case of high schools at the national level, in single-teacher, dual-teacher and multi-teacher institutions and for all schools from first grade to third grade, in the rural zones.

For the return to classrooms, biosafety protocols will be maintained, Minister Brown explained.

As for the 162 educational centers with infrastructure damage, these They are distributed by zones:

– 16 in Zone 1 (Esmeraldas, Carchi, Imbabura and Sucumbíos)

– 17 in Zone 2 (Pichincha except Quito, Napo and Orellana)

– 8 in Zone 3 (Cotopaxi, Chimborazo, Tungurahua and Pastaza)

– 7 in Zone 4 (Manabí and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas)

– 67 in Zone 5 (Bolívar, Los Ríos, Santa Elena, Galápagos and Guayas except Guayaquil, Durán and Samborondón)

– 3 in Zone 6 (Azuay, Cañar and Morona Santiago)

– 14 in Zone 7 (El Oro, Loja, Zamora Chinchipe)

– 30 in Zone 8 (Guayaquil, Durán and Samborondón)

In Guayaquil, the voluntary return to classrooms is accompanied by an intervention in 30 schools in urban and rural areas

“The increase that you can see in Zone 5 is due precisely to the winter season and the damage that has been caused by the large amount of rain. Every week you will see how many of these institutions are already intervened and are leaving this list that will be public for the knowledge of all citizens”, said Minister Brown. (I)