{"id":121269,"date":"2021-05-04T10:44:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T02:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121269"},"modified":"2021-05-04T10:44:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T02:44:21","slug":"covid-19-uruguay-begins-gradual-return-to-in-person-education-amid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121269","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Uruguay begins gradual return to in-person education amid pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mother.ly%2Fnews%2Fthis-country-gets-a-on-back-to-school-reopening-according-to-experts&amp;psig=AOvVaw1uFxxrG7FzjTcfNxt_yzIF&amp;ust=1620181858808000&amp;source=images&amp;cd=vfe&amp;ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCNCIk8v9rvACFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mother.ly\/media-library\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzUxODUxNi9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY3MzI4NTk3NX0.GUNappbx3ibCewgfOH5K-zF4_w7XwiskiLcxety3Qno\/image.jpg?width=1245&amp;quality=85&amp;coordinates=0%2C106%2C0%2C0&amp;height=700\" alt=\"Back-to-School: How Uruguay Got It Right - Motherly\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MONTEVIDEO, May 4 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Uruguay on Monday began the process of gradually resuming in-person classes, which have been suspended due to the novel coronavirus disease, the president of the National Public Education Administration (ANEP), Robert Silva, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rural schools that operate with a single teacher began face-to-face teaching, with 726 such facilities welcoming back some 6,000 preschool and elementary school students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Today they open for the five hours, every day of the week, and with dining hall services enabled,&#8221; Silva told reporters on a tour of rural schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone&#8217;s commitment to heeding social distancing measures is fundamental to achieving the best possible return to the classroom, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the government&#8217;s timetable, preschools throughout the country will reopen on May 10, while higher levels will gradually return starting on May 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uruguay is going through the worst stage of its COVID-19 outbreak, with a total of 202,492 confirmed cases and 2,724 related deaths as of Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the general director of Preschool and Primary Education, Graciela Fabeyro, 61 percent of teachers have already received both doses of COVID-19 vaccine.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTEVIDEO, May 4 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Uruguay on Monday began the process of gradually resuming in-person classes, which have been suspended due to the novel coronavirus disease, the president of the National Public Education Administration (ANEP), Robert Silva, said. Rural schools that operate with a single teacher began face-to-face teaching, with 726 such facilities welcoming back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121269"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}