Education authorities confirmed the third case of COVID-19 in Schools in Mexico City, a week before returning to face-to-face classes.
The Federal Educational Authority in Mexico City (AEFCM) reported that this is a student who is in the third grade, in the Day Secondary No. 61 “Olga Esquivel Molina” located in the colonia Ampliación Gabriel Ramos Millán, Iztacalco city hall.
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The student informed the campus authorities that he had had cold symptoms and that, according to the test that was performed at the Pediatric Hospital of Iztacalco, he tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.
The educational community decided as a preventive measure to continue with the distance classes, while epidemiological control actions are carried out on those who had contact with the minor.
In relation to another suspicious case of a private school located in the Benito Juarez mayor’s office, the AEFCM reported that the result was negative, so the mother of the minor notified this Saturday to the health and educational authorities.
The first case was identified on June 10 in a student who is in the first grade at Technical High School No. 80, located in the Miguel Hidalgo neighborhood of the Tláhuac municipality.
The second case was registered in a student who is in the first grade of high school at the Emma Godoy Day High School, located in the La Esmeralda neighborhood, of the Gustavo A. Madero mayor’s office.
Last Monday, June 7, it was reported the opening of one thousand 103 preschool, primary, secondary and special education schools, both private and public, in Mexico City.
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