04/14/2021 9:20 AM
Clarín.com
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Updated 04/14/2021 9:20 AM
The teaching unions UTE and Ademys began on Wednesday a work stoppage in the City to demand the "temporary suspension of attendance" of classes, in the face of the increase in coronavirus infections, while the Buenos Aires union Udocba also called for a measure of force in the province of Buenos Aires.
"We demand that Horacio Rodríguez Larreta temporarily suspend presence in CABA. Health and life are a priority," said the Union of Education Workers (UTE-Ctera) in the call for unemployment.
"The temporary suspension of face-to-face classes in the City of Buenos Aires is until
this contagion madness
stops growing
and there are beds
(for intensive therapy)," said the union secretary of Ctera and deputy general secretary of UTE, Eduardo López.
For its part, the Teaching Association of Secondary and Higher Education (Ademys) expressed itself along the same lines in a statement: "We stopped in the face of
the brutal increase in cases
, the collapse of the health system, the rise in infections in children aged 0 10 years, and the collapse of public transport. "
From that union they also called for
a mobilization in a
car
caravan
at 12 o'clock, from the National Congress to the Pizzurno Palace - headquarters of the Ministry of Education - together with Suteba and other sections.
Eduardo López, union secretary of Ctera and deputy general secretary of UTE.
Photo Lucia Merle.
In addition to the suspension of classes, Ademys requested a "massive vaccination plan for the entire population, equipment and connectivity for teachers and students, emergency admission for unemployed and / or precarious families, and no dismissed teachers."
To the claims,
Ademys reported the death of a 22-year-old student
who was in the second year of the Antonio Berni Art Guidance High School in Almagro.
"
He had been hospitalized for weeks
after the covid complicated a pre-existing kidney failure," they explained in the statement.
Finally, from the Union of Teachers of the province of Buenos Aires (Udocba), one of the unions that makes up the
Teaching Unit Front
, they also called for a 24-hour strike for this Wednesday, while another union questioned the measure of force .
Udocba, the union led by
Miguel Díaz
, deemed it necessary "to return immediately to virtuality to stop the transmission of the virus" within the framework of the second wave of the pandemic.
At this point, he understood that "there is no political will to make the fundamental decision that this reality requires," in reference to a suspension of attendance.
Meanwhile, the representative of the Argentine Teachers Union (UDA) Buenos Aires Province Section, Edith Contreras, warned that "unemployment is a direct action measure that should be the last ratio, especially in a pandemic context."
The voice of governments
The Buenos Aires Ministry of Education presented on Tuesday a report with the new data on infections within the classrooms.
The hard numbers of the district mark that, from March 17 to April 12, schools reported 5,006 infections of covid-19.
They represent only 0.71% of the total number of people who attend schools, including students, teachers and assistants (700,518 people in total).
This is seven cases per thousand.
According to the district authorities, these statistics "confirm that
the school does not produce contagions
" and that is why the interruption of the current class scheme with face-to-face classes and protocols is not analyzed in the district.
For its part, the Government of Buenos Aires announced the creation of a
crisis committee
made up of health, educational authorities and teachers' unions, which will evaluate from this Thursday whether in the districts most affected by the coronavirus face-to-face classes are suspended or restricted.
Both the Minister of Health, Daniel Gollan, and his vice, Nicolás Kreplak, had hinted that presence could be "reduced" due to the rise in infections in the largest district in the country.
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