If there is a moment that especially excites students, it is the end of course. It’s about a very special reason to celebrateEither because it means graduating or because the holidays begin. One of the most common forms of celebration are trips for students and teachers to disconnect after a hard academic year, to which the difficulty brought by the pandemic has been added. However, as experts warn, COVID-19 is still with us and extreme precautions must be taken when traveling to avoid macro outbreaks like the one recently detected.
The Ministry of Health of the Community of Madrid has informed Efe that 245 Madrid students have contracted the British variant of the coronavirus and at least 452 contacts are in follow-up after a end of year trip to Mallorca, in an outbreak that affects a total of six autonomous communities. Cantabria, Basque Country, Murcia, Valencian Community Y Baleares they are the other affected regions.
Elche registers 32 infected
The alarm went off on the Valencian Community when, upon returning from the end-of-year trip on the island of Mallorca, some students from Elche presented symptoms compatible with COVID-19 and, later, tested positive in the PCR. So far, the outbreak registered in the city of Elche have accumulated 32 infected students, which belong to public, subsidized and private centers. What’s more, Elche City Council controls and monitors those who may arrive in the next few days from other trips and it is expected that as soon as they arrive they will be tested for the virus.
The infected students They traveled by ferry on June 12 to Palma, where they stayed until the 18th. Regarding travel planning, the Councilor for Education from Elche, the socialist María José Martínez, revealed this Thursday to Efe that Most have not been organized by the centers, but by the students themselves.
For their part, infected students who had make-up exams pending they will telematically, while he is studying with the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) a change of date for extraordinary selectivity tests, fixed between July 6 and 8 In the Valencian community.
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