The Minister of Health, Hernando Cevallos, indicated that the rapid advance of the omicron variant of COVID-19 do not affect the schedule for the return of face-to-face school classes, established for next March.
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“The return to classes hopefully not (affect), it all depends. I hope that we can control this variant, what we are precisely evaluating with the group of experts is that the months of January and February could be the most complicated months compared to this variant, international experience indicates that after two months or two months and a half begins to descend the peak of this wave, this is happening in South Africa and in several European countries, we cannot have an exact date of when the cases of omicron would decrease in our country“Said the member of the ministerial cabinet.
Nevertheless, Cevallos remarked that the omicron variant “It is not more aggressive” than the previous variants and that in the international context it appears in mild to moderate conditions.
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“If we design an adequate strategy we can allow that in the month of March we can have classes, especially because the omicron variant It is not behaving like a more aggressive variant than the previous variants, but what it is giving in the world are mostly mild to moderate pictures”, He declared.
“If we manage to reduce the cases of contagion and if we manage to manage a more or less orderly strategy so that the health system does not overflow, then the return to classes can take place in March”He added.
