AMMAN — The Secretary-General for
Administrative and Financial Affairs at the Ministry of Education Najwa
Qabilat, said that the daily infection rate of COVID-19 at schools ranges
between 0.15 percent and 0.018 percent of the total number of teachers and
students, according to Al-Ghad News.
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Qabilat explained that the percentage of
infections inside schools since the beginning of the school year has not exceeded
0.4 percent, noting that a decision to reinstate remote learning requires a
school reach an infection rate of 10 percent.
However, a number of students have been
sent home due to infections, she said, noting that the number of students sent
home had not exceeded 0.1 percent of class totals.
She added that the ministry is constantly
following up on the pandemic situation inside of schools of and that each
school has a health official to follow up on the health of students.
The
Ministry of Health is also conducting random tests at all of the schools in
Jordan. So far, some 40,926 test have been administered.
Qabilat said that the situation at all of
the schools inside the Kingdom is stable, noting that some 93.64 percent of
teachers have received the vaccine.
She reiterated that the health protocol
dictates that the decision to have face-to-face education at schools is
irreversible. She also called on parents to not pay attention to rumors about
the issue.
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