A total of 21 municipalities were marked in red as part of the most recent transmission risk analysis. Covid-19, which means that none of its campuses will be able to reopen next week, even if they have the infrastructure and capacity to implement the protocols Department of Health.
The municipalities with the highest level of transmission are Aguadilla, Isabela, Quebradillas, Hatillo, Cataño, Loíza, Santa Isabel, Juana Díaz, Ponce, Jayuya, Peñuelas, San Germán, Lajas, Maricao, Cabo Rojo, Lares, Añasco, Rincón, Naranjito , Barranquitas and Morovis.
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“For schools that want to have a hybrid mode (face-to-face and distance education), one of the criteria is that the municipality is not at the red level. It must also respect the safety of students, teachers and all that is established in the protocol, “said the health secretary-designate. Carlos Mellado, alluding to the guidelines issued last week.
Mellado added that all schools, equally, must be enrolled in BioPortal of the agency, a requirement that all public schools already meet.
Tomorrow, Department of Education Officialize the list of public schools that could open early next month.
A list released yesterday showed that the Department of Education believes there are 187 structurally adequate schools to provide face-to-face education.
In total, the 21 cities at the red level have 49 schools that, from a structural point of view, would be ready to open. In this way, it would exist 138 schools with the potential to reopen in the initial phase of returning to face-to-face courses.
Concerned that reopening schools will have to close due to a sharp rise in infection levels in a particular municipality, Mellado said the current trend of transmission in the country is downward.
“What is red will turn a different color (depending on how we move so far into a pandemic,” said the head of Health.
Mellado said that on the island, Puerto Rico is at the orange level, the third of the four levels of risk. Most municipalities, at this time, appear in yellow, the second highest level of risk.
The only municipalities at the blue level, the one with the lowest risk, are Manatí, Corozal, Canóvanas, Patillas, Ceiba, Vieques and Culebra.