The Minister of Education, Abbas Al-Halabi, chaired an administrative-educational meeting today, in which he stressed “the commitment to the directives of the Ministerial Committee and the opening of schools tomorrow, in order to save the school year, while adhering to the highest levels of health protection, and to allow public school students to follow their programs, following the students of private schools completed three months of education.
Al-Halabi stressed that he will seek once once more with the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister to sign bidding decrees as quickly as possible, or to hold a session for the Council of Ministers to approve them, especially since these bids include all public sector employees and education workers as well.
Over the course of today and yesterday, he received more than 50,000 doses of the “Pfizer” vaccine during the marathon organized by the Ministries of Health and Education, and allocated to the educational sector, and to all citizens and residents who wished, which Ministers Firas Al-Abyad and Abbas Al-Halabi expressed their satisfaction with.
In the context of completing measures to secure a safe return to urban education, the Minister of Interior and Municipalities, Bassam Mawlawi, stressed the governors and governors “the need to adhere to (…) the municipalities’ taking all necessary measures leading to the safe return to schools in light of the outbreak of the Corona virus, in terms of ensuring that all necessary measures are taken into account.” Health conditions from schools, provided that the health reality, each within its scope, is presented to the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, which has the authority to take the decision to open or close schools, in order to issue the necessary decisions when needed.
On the other hand, the northern municipalities of Qobayat and Akkar Al-Atika announced the postponement of the return to urban education within their scope until next week. The municipality of Bcharre had taken a similar decision yesterday.
While the Ministry of Health recorded 4,780 new infections yesterday, and 16 deaths from infection with “Corona”, Minister of Health Firas Al-Abyad expected that the large numbers of Corona would begin to “reduce soon”, stressing in parallel that “the lifebelt of the next tsunami is the vaccine.”
During a tour of government hospitals, Al-Abyad pointed out that “it is necessary to open society, as more than 50% of the people have become a day-to-day, and if we close it, it will be tantamount to execution, so it was the decision of preparations, procedures and vaccines.”
Al-Abyad pointed out that the hospital occupancy rate this year is “almost a third of what it was last year or less, and the difference between this year and last year is the vaccine, because last year when the alpha mutant came, it killed us, because there was no vaccine, immunization or immunization.” to society.”
Health officials are counting on the demand for citizens and residents to get vaccinated once morest “Corona” to avoid pressure on hospitals, which are suffering from an unprecedented deterioration, due to the economic crisis. The “Corona” counter has recorded high numbers since last month, due to the spread of the new mutant “Omicron” and the evasion of measures to prevent “Corona”, specifically during the celebrations of the end of last year.
