Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the Scientific Committee to Confront the Corona Virus, after its meeting regarding the epidemiological situation within the school community, recommended continuing lessons in educational institutions and not changing the school holiday calendar for this year, despite previous suggestions from doctors to close schools or advance the holiday date in order to avoid the further spread of mutated “Omicron” infection. rapid.
At the same time, the scientific committee called on the entire educational family to complete the vaccination against the Corona virus in order to protect against the dangerous effects of infection with the virus.
A member of the Scientific Committee to Confront the Corona Virus, Amin Salim, stated in statements to Sky News Arabia that the consideration of vaccination for the age group between 5 and 12 years has been postponed at the present time due to the spread of “Omicron”, while the recommendations tended to further urge educators to complete vaccination doses, indicating However, 13,000 of them have not yet completed the vaccination.
Dr. Selim stressed that Tunisia is experiencing a rapid spread of Omicron, and that the wave will know its peak by the end of the week within a few days, expecting that no very dangerous cases or deaths will be recorded as a result of this new mutation of the Corona virus.
For its part, the General University of Secondary Education called in a statement for the “temporary suspension of lessons for a certain period and on exact dates,” and the Assistant General Secretary of the University of Secondary Education, Fakhri Al-Sumaiti, said in statements to the site that the union representative of educators suggested offering the holiday and disrupting the course of lessons currently in order to break the cycles of infection and enable The pedagogical inspectors are required to review educational programs by reducing or merging them in anticipation of any development in the spread of the Corona virus in the country.
Al-Hashemi Al-Wazir, the head of the leadership committee of the national campaign for vaccination against Covid-19, attributed the spread of infection episodes in educational institutions and the closure of a number of them in recent days to the rapid spread of the new Corona mutant “Omicron” and its targeting of all age groups, including children. In addition to the double vaccination rate for this group.
The minister confirmed, in statements carried by the official news agency, that the increase in the number of infections with the “Omicron” mutant in schools and preparatory schools was not excluded due to the spread of the virus mutated, which has a large spread capacity, as well as the presence of infection episodes in various regions of the country, noting that most of the observed cases are asymptomatic. So far, no serious cases have been recorded in children carrying this mutation.
Regarding the vaccination of children, Al-Hashemi Al-Wazir explained that only 52,000 people have been vaccinated in the age group from 12 to 15 years, and most of them are students. and psychiatry.
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