That children are now back to face to face classes is just the right beginning to the road back to normalcy.
With the prevailing coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic favorable for the gradual expansion of in-person classes nationwide, the Department of Education’s (DepEd) is making the timely transition.
The transition as ordered by DepEd will allow schools in areas under Alert Levels 1 and 2 to conduct limited F2F classes, subject to health protocols. As of March 28, about 13,692 public and private schools have been participating in in-person classes, according to DepEd data. As of April 11, more than 10 million children have so far been fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
From April 4 to 10, the country logged an additional 1,906 Covid-19 infections, with an estimated daily average case of 272. Given the low number of reported Covid-19 cases, more than half of the country’s total cities and municipalities, including Davao City, have been placed under the most lenient Alert Level 1 for the second half of April.
It has been two years since children have been plucked out of classrooms as the coronavirus wave swept through the country changing the way we lived. Among the biggest changes involved the young school children who transitioned from face-to-face learning to online classes.
As kids return to schools, one thing will remain and that’s the face masks which will perhaps become part of the academic lifestyle.
