Student morbidity has dropped by 67%, but the Ministry of Health insists on continuing to study in groups • The Ministry of Education attacked: "Student abuse"
Students in capsules // Photo: Michelle dot com
Data from the Ministry of Health show that the morbidity in Corona among students was "cut" during the Passover holiday by more than two-thirds.
Among students, 7,620 people were diagnosed on 20.3, with the departure of the Passover holiday, while last Friday (2.4) there were only 2,640 patients among the students.
This is a decrease of 67%.
Among the teaching staff, there were 624 infected with the departure for the Passover holiday, while last weekend the number of patients decreased and stood at only 182.
This is a decrease of about 71%.
The situation of the vaccinated people aged 16-18 is also encouraging.
Data from the Ministry of Health show that 58% of this age group are vaccinated (at least two weeks after the first dose or recover).
In the general population, 62% are aged 16-18, in the ultra-Orthodox sector 53% and 47% in the Arab sector.
At the same time, there is growing criticism of the Ministry of Health's decision to return the studies in the format as it was before Pesach, with the exception of the cancellation of the capsules in the third grade.
"It is foolish not to open the education system in a situation of low morbidity and a highly immunized population. The damage to students is greater from not opening education than from the corona," says Prof. Hagai Levin, an epidemiologist and public health specialist at the Hebrew University and Hadassah.
"Opening without capsules may increase morbidity, but Libra tends towards opening. The fact that children in the twelfth grades do not return to school is more harmful to them than the corona.
Data on addictions, depression and obesity among adolescents show that in another two weeks, fourth- and sixth-graders will be doing half-learning, causing great damage to public health.
In elementary school it is time to completely cancel the capsules and also to open and facilitate more in grades 7-10 and grades 11-12. Those who are vaccinated can return to normal learning. "
According to the Ministry of Health, in a high school where the percentage of recovering and vaccinated students is higher than 90%, it is possible to study in full classes and without restricting the transition between groups of students.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Education claims that it is possible to cancel the capsules throughout the country at this age, since about 68% of the students in grades 11-12 were vaccinated and recovered.
According to the director general of the Ministry of Education, Amit Edri: "It makes no sense to leave the education system in the form of half-groups in half days, especially in light of the decline in morbidity data and the high rate of immunization among teaching staff and students in grades 11-12." The Ministry of Education sounded more assertive, saying: "The low morbidity figures, along with the high immunization rates of teaching staff and students in grades 11-12, prove that this is an abuse of students and the system."
The Ministry of Health said that "the Ministry of Health holds frequent discussions with professionals in the Ministry of Education to think together how to open the system safely. It is important to remember that children can not yet be vaccinated and they may also infect adults around them. Therefore, we demand careful and gradual opening. .
The ministry is promoting a series of mitigation measures such as opening third grades without capsules, implementing an education shield in seventh-tenth grades as a condition for canceling capsules, and lowering the vaccine threshold in grades 11-12 to 65% as a condition for canceling capsules.
There are a number of additional facilitations that are examined daily in a professional and respectful discourse. "