SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 6 May. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Ministry of Education, Universities, Culture and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands has informed the educational centers of the islands of the update of the measures adopted in relation to the new surveillance and control strategy against COVID-19 determined by the Ministry of Health.
Among others, it highlights that in Infant, Primary and Special Education Centers, the Stable Coexistence Groups (GCE), also known as ‘bubble groups’, can interact with each other both outdoors and indoors, except in the school canteen. and alternative spaces enabled for meals, in which they will remain.
In addition, the complementary activities that include an overnight stay will also be organized by ‘bubble groups’, and the courses that do not have them will establish fixed subgroups to carry out the activity.
On the other hand, families will be allowed access to both indoor and outdoor spaces in the centers, although crowds will have to be avoided.
Individual tutoring meetings with families in well-ventilated interior spaces are also authorized under the condition of complying with the prevention and hygiene measures that are in force at that time, with priority for outdoor meetings, the Ministry reports in a note.
Sporting events or celebrations that take place in the centers will be held, whenever possible, outdoors, and in accordance with the same conditions as their counterparts in the community sphere.
In the same way, complementary outdoor activities will be prioritized. In the case of visits to museums, cinemas, theaters and the like, the preventive measures established by the place visited will be carried out.
External people may attend the complementary activities that take place in the center, provided that the established prevention, hygiene and health promotion measures are maintained, and that it is permitted according to the regulations and in the level of risk in which the person is found. island.
The same will apply to those developed outside the center that require the assistance of external people for their correct development.
DO NOT COME WITH ACUTE SYMPTOMS
For the celebration of graduation ceremonies, end of course or other types of social or cultural events that may take place in the center in the context of its activity, the existing prevention measures against COVID-19 will be complied with for cultural events in the autonomous community.
In general, it is recalled that attendance at the center is not recommended when a person presents acute symptoms compatible with COVID-19 or another acute and potentially communicable infectious disease.
In this sense, the educational center will inform parents, mothers and other parental figures, or students of legal age, explicitly and with confirmation of receipt of the information, that students with any acute symptomatology refrain from going to school. school.
In this way, assistance can be resumed in the event of an evident improvement in symptoms and if there is no fever in the last 24 hours.
In these cases, extreme precautions will be taken during the ten days after the onset of symptoms compatible with COVID-19 (avoid contact with vulnerable people; use a surgical mask; carry out adequate hand hygiene; do not attend crowded events, and limit the contacts to the groups with which one interacts on a regular basis within the center).
Education also points out that if a person begins to develop symptoms compatible with COVID-19 in the center, they must put on a surgical mask and contact their family or legal guardians, if they are minors, to come and pick them up.
If she is an adult, autonomous and is well, she will go home, avoiding contact on the way. In case of serious symptoms or respiratory distress, call 112.
