The Minister of Education, Rosendo Sernaannounced this Thursday that the use of masks by schoolchildren in school classrooms will be “optional and optional”in the context of the fourth wave of coronavirus (Covid-19).
In dialogue with TV Peru, the member of the ministerial cabinet indicated that the decision was approved unanimously this Thursday in an extension of the session of the Council of Ministers.
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“The decision has been made that the use of masks in classrooms for students will be optional, it will be optionalthat is to say, the student who, together with their parents, have made the decision not to use them, simply will not use the masks from the issuance of the modification of the supreme decree, which I suppose should be issued tomorrow “, expressed Serna.
“Children or young people make the decision, also surely discussed with their parents, to continue using the masks they will do, (the decision) is a big step towards better socialization and communication to improve learning”, he added.
Meeting with the Minsa
Previously, the Minister of Education, Rosendo Sernapointed out that a meeting of technicians from the Ministry of Health (Minsa) for an analysis of the non-mandatory use of masks in schoolchildren in the midst of the fourth wave of coronavirus in Peru.
The official recalled that he was one of the members of the Executive who was in favor of applying flexibility in some protocols arranged as a preventive measure in the fight against the coronavirus.
“If you remember, I was one of the most interested in breaking the distance meter and the capacity, and I have been constantly insisting to the point that we made the decision. I am still in the process of face mask. That’s why, I told them that the emergency decree must be reviewed because if we make it more flexible and, taking into account the situation of the pandemic and the decrease in infections, it is necessary to make it more flexible. In children and young people this issue does not have a controlling effect, but in adults it does because, having chronic diseases, it is necessary to protect yourself”he pointed out on that occasion.
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