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Santa Cruz students will return to face-to-face classes starting March 14. This has been decided by the Departmental Emergency Operations Committee (COED), which this Tuesday assumed new provisions to contain and prevent the spread of Covid-19 in Santa Cruz.
Among the new measures taken by this instance is the execution and control of biosecurity measures in schools.
“We entrust the responsibility to the education authorities (Seduca, school directors and teachers) to arrange the controls related to biosafety in educational establishments during school work,” says one of the points of the document approved this Tuesday.
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In addition, it is planned to strengthen vaccination against the coronavirus in students with mobile brigades that will visit the educational units of the department of Santa Cruz starting Monday.
The Government, through the Headquarters, together with the municipal and educational authorities, will implement a biosafety protocol that must be applied in schools in order to avoid a resurgence of covid cases during the return to classrooms.
The Secretary of Health of the Government, Fernando Pacheco, indicated that these new measures come into force from Wednesday, March 9 to Tuesday, March 29 of the same month.