A total of 34 students in the Canary Islands have tested positive for Covid-19 since the beginning of the school year on September 15, which represents 0.7% of the 330,000 currently enrolled in the islands. In addition, tests have been carried out on more than 14,000 children in the hot zones where there is a greater impact from the coronavirus, including Arrecife.
As for teachers, 29 cases of coronavirus have been detected and there are 68 teachers in quarantine for having had close contact with a positive case.
This Tuesday, of the 13,000 classrooms in the archipelago, 6 are closed due to contagion of some of their students, and incidents have been recorded in 68 educational centers, out of the more than a thousand in the Canary Islands.
This data has been released, in parliamentary headquarters, by the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, when asked by Ciudadanos (Cs) and the Socialist Group about the start of the school year, which occurred just a week ago.
Ángel Víctor Torres stressed that the Government of the Canary Islands has made an "important effort" towards the start of classes. Thus, he highlighted that 2,500 teachers, 402 new assistants, 18 subordinates, 50 educators and 78 counselors have been added, and an investment of 120 million euros has been made.
Torres stated that the opening of schools has meant that six months "of cold and silence" in the classrooms have been transformed into "life, learning, coexistence, growth, training and a right that young people, boys and girls have to education." However, he did not hide that we must maintain the "fear" of covid because he is sure that new infections will occur.
"A deficient"
On behalf of the Mixed Group, deputy Vidina Espino pointed out that the Government has obtained a "deficient" grade in relation to the start of the school year, and criticized that during all these months it has done nothing more than "fall into triumphalism and self-satisfaction."
Likewise, she asked the president about the 158 million euros from the first tranche of covid funds that had to reach the Canary Islands before the end of July, assuring that only 31 million had arrived.
In this regard, Ángel Víctor Torres assured that on July 30 he received those 158 million euros, of which Education received 87 million towards the start of classes; therefore, he asked the Cs deputy that, faced with the "chaos" that she intends to proclaim, she be more "rigorous."
