The Government will modify the epidemiological risk traffic light so that face-to-face classes are considered essential activities. Therefore, if the states go to a red light due to increases in contagion by Covid-19, the courses in classrooms cannot be suspended.
In a virtual meeting between the governors and some members of the Cabinet of the federal administration, the Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, announced that education will be an essential activity, so it should not be subject to restrictions.
“This is going to lead us to the need for a traffic light amendment. In the conversation with the teacher Delfina (Gómez) and the SEP team, we identified that it effectively requires that we release the legal possibility of the SEP to be able to call the classrooms when there are traffic lights higher than yellow, ”said the undersecretary.
He added: “So that connotation is going to have, it is an essential activity, so it is not subject to restrictions even when we have a red traffic light. So that is going to be the addition that we are going to do soon ”.
Lee: Rain or shine, face-to-face classes would restart in August, says AMLO
At this meeting, the Secretary of the Interior, Olga Sánchez Cordero, pointed out that “voluntary return” to face-to-face classes cannot be postponed.
He mentioned that the challenge is “to allow a strategic return to face-to-face educational activities and also to economic ones with all the relevant security measures, of course, but also by preventing contagions.”
That comes after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the classroom courses will restart in August “rain, shine or lightning.”
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