Yelitze Santaella, Minister of Education, assured that Venezuela is among the 16 countries in the region that have vaccinated all teachers. We are now going to return 100% face-to-face, and the government, through the Vice Presidency, has implemented a whole mechanism of measures for all educational institutions,” he said.
The Minister of Education Yelitze Santaella announced that the vaccination scheme against covid-19 will be reinforced in students and teachers who start the 2022-2023 school term on October 3 and that it will be the first, after the pandemic, totally face-to-face.
“We are, in the region, within the 16 countries that have vaccinated all teaching staff and students, but, equally, we are going, together with the Ministry of Popular Power for Health, to also start the reinforcement in students and the reinforcement in teachers,” said the official this Sunday, October 2, in an interview with the state channel VTV.
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He pointed out that, last year, when face-to-face classes were partially resumed, there was no case of massive contagion in schools thanks to biosecurity measures.
“We are now going to return 100% in person, and the government, through the Vice Presidency, has implemented a whole mechanism of measures for all educational institutions that open their doors tomorrow to receive our boys, our girls and our young people,” he added. .
In March, Santaella assured that 73% of the country’s minors had been vaccinated against covid-19, as well as 97% of the workers assigned to the State portfolio that he leads, although he did not clarify the number of doses applied in the immunized.
This October 3 will start the first school year “after the pandemic that will have a complete educational period, with face-to-face and direct classes during the five days of the week at the different levels of education,” as reported last Wednesday, the head of state.
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