Venezuela resumes face-to-face classes suspended since March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic | PHOTOS

The schools of Venezuela students again this Monday after 19 months without face-to-face activities due to the pandemic of coronavirus COVID-19, although without a massive influx due to sanitary regulations and delays in the repairs of some structures.

Far from the typical hubbub, with their faces covered with masks, which are mandatory in the country, and sitting at a distance from each other, the children took up face-to-face classes.

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The progressive return of an enrollment of some 8.7 million students, according to official figures, provokes mixed feelings. On the one hand, relief for many parents who did not have a way to fill the educational void of their children, and on the other, the latent concern about the eventual spread of the disease. coronavirus.

“I think it is necessary, we already have too much time at home and they feel lost even though we have put them in various activities”Berta López, a 43-year-old administrative assistant, told AFP after accompanying her youngest daughter to a public school in Caracas.

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This mother says that in the school where her little girl studies everything has been ordered. “There is no disaster with the return to school, they have them separated with their rules.”

Some educational facilities did not open because they do not meet the conditions or are in the process of rehabilitation, such as the Andrés Bello high school, one of the largest in Caracas, with a capacity for 1,370 students.

It will only receive students in groups of 15 for advice, until the work is completed, and they will continue with distance classes, explained its director, Wilmer Marcano.

The return to face-to-face classes coincides with the start of vaccination for children 12 years of age and older. In fact, President Nicolás Maduro announced on Sunday that this week they plan to include schools and high schools in the immunization centers against the COVID-19.

Despite fearing the pandemic, William Blanco, a 55-year-old businessman, took his 7-year-old girl to school. “They need it,” he said.

Before vaccinating his two daughters, López wants to make sure that the vaccines applied in Venezuela are approved by the World Health Organization (WHO).

“My daughter who is in high school is asthmatic and I do want to vaccinate her, but I want to know if it is approved by the WHO”, he assured.

The oil country started last February the application of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V and the Chinese Sinopharm, both of two doses. Later, the Cuban Abdala joined, whose immunization cycle requires three doses.

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