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  • They ask to suspend classes in Nicaragua after the death of six teachers by COVID-19

    Source: https://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20...-covid-19.html


    NICARAGUA CORONAVIRUS
    They ask to suspend classes in Nicaragua after the death of six teachers by COVID-19
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    05/23/2020 23:17

    Managua, May 23 (EFE) .- The Magisterial Union Unit and the opposition Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, demanded this Saturday the suspension of classes in Nicaragua, to prevent the spread of COVID-19, after the death of at least six teachers because of the pandemic.

    The union and the opposition movement publicly called for the suspension of classes, arguing that parents are not sending their children to schools for fear of the pandemic, but also because teachers are spreading it "unnecessarily."

    "There are a large number of infected teachers, we have already lost count because they call us from all over Nicaragua, the authorities refuse to suspend classes, although the schools are empty, the teachers have to take up to two buses (buses) or more, and they are not being given any type of protection, that is why some are dead, ”said the president of the union, Lesbia Rodr?guez.

    The Civic Alliance added that “during the pandemic, many teachers have been forced to require parents to send their children to schools, even visiting house to house to lobby for assistance. Center directors have issued instructions to end the school year for those students who are absent. ”

    The Alliance criticized that Nicaragua remains the only country in the Americas, and one of few in the world, where classes have not been suspended, despite the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO).

    Nicaragua has more than 45,000 teachers, some 10,000 schools, and 1.2 million students in basic and high school levels.

    The plaintiffs also complained that teachers of fifth and sixth year of basic education were "forced" to take a face-to-face training course starting this week, because, they claimed, it increases the risk of contracting COVID-19.

    President Daniel Ortega has received criticism, inside and outside Nicaragua, for his particular handling of the pandemic, which consists of not establishing restrictions, allowing minimal prevention measures, and promoting crowds, whose assistants, exclusively Sandinistas, are then sent to carry out house-to-house visits.

    So far, the Government of Nicaragua, the second poorest country in Latin America, recognizes 279 infected by the new coronavirus, with 17 dead. The independent Citizen Observatory COVID-19, which enjoys greater credibility than the authorities, reports at least 2,323 cases, with 465 deaths.

    The WHO and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), as well as the Organization of American States (OAS), have expressed their concern about the situation in Nicaragua, while the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Rights Humans (OHCHR), and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), have asked Ortega to guarantee the right to health. EFE
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