WASHINGTON – The US Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, assured this Sunday that the objective is to maintain schools open for students to attend in person, although he acknowledged that there may be some problems at the beginning of the year due to the increase in COVID cases – 19.
“We have been very clear: our expectation is that schools are open full time for students to come in person. We remember the impact of last year’s school closings, ”Cardona said in an interview on Fox television.
However, Cardona acknowledged that there can be problems “especially this week” when students plan to return to classes after Christmas break.
Specifically, it indicated that the last data suggest that between 5% and 10% of school employees have reported that they will not be able to go to schools due to being infected on Monday.
Several US school districts have, in fact, delayed back-to-school days for all students and teachers to submit to to test before going back to school.
The United States lives a record of COVID infections – 19 with the arrival of the Omicron variant, with close to 400,000 per day in the last week.
Given the increase in COVID cases – 19, intensive care (ICU) bed occupations had an increase of 16,761 to 18,058, according to a report by John Hopkins University.
Also, almost the 59 % of coronavirus cases in United States are because of the Omicron variant, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“Certainly there will be many more cases because this is a much more transmissible virus than Delta”, alerted the director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci.