Of the 300 student children, at least seven or eight tested positive for coronavirus, the principal reported.
Schools in the municipality are worried about the situation of contagions after the festivities of Señor del Monte. Photo: Courtesy.
Héctor Ruiz Mejía.- Covid contagions persist in the schools of the municipality of Jocotepec, after the second week of the return to classes, according to educational authorities.
It’s «worrying and difficult,” described Mayra Berenice García, director of the elementary school J. Vicente Negrete, located in the delegation of El Molina, where contagions among children have been increasing.
From the 70 percent attendance rate at the beginning of the week of January 17, the figure dropped to 50 percent for the second week, said the director.
Of the 300 children who make up the total student body, at least seven or eight tested positive for the coronavirus. The first grade classroom was the most affected and had to suspend classes for a week.
In addition, other children have presented respiratory symptoms; however, they don’t have access to COVID-19 tests, since these cost between 500 and 600 pesos and not many parents can afford them, so they have been considered as only suspected cases.
Therefore, according to the teacher, the number of infections among students is uncertain and although she expressed that the outlook for the next two weeks after the festivities is alarming, the Ministry of Education of Jalisco (SEJ) has been unyielding in its decision to return to the classroom.
«Unfortunately, to the educational authorities our opinion does not count, but at least we can demand that they do their job,» commented another of the directors, explaining that the sanitation protocol is deficient.
The teachers explained that, when a case is detected, it has to be reported to Health Region IV Ciénega-La Barca, which for federal zone 90 covers the towns of Nextipac, the municipal seat, Los Trojes, El Molino and San Luciano, among other delegations. But they never answer.
And when they do, they explained, the only answer is that classes cannot be suspended and that they have to continue with the same health protocols. The situation is further complicated by the fact that in El Molino the health system is almost null, as well as the testing system.
Since only three percent of the 300 children have some type of Social Security thanks to their parents, this means that only nine children in the entire school have decent access to health care.
Translated by Sandy Britton
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