{"id":233045,"date":"2021-01-13T12:57:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=233045"},"modified":"2021-01-13T12:57:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:57:26","slug":"guantanamo-closes-schools-due-to-covid-19-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/guantanamo-closes-schools-due-to-covid-19-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Guant\u00e1namo closes schools due to COVID-19 outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around 80 schools in the province of <\/span>Guant\u00e1namo<\/span><\/a>, Cuba\u2019s easternmost province, will temporarily close their doors due to the rebound in <\/span>COVID-19<\/span><\/a> cases in that territory.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Department of Education in Guant\u00e1namo, 82 educational institutions are suspending their teaching activities, of the 779 open in the province, the local newspaper <\/span>Venceremos<\/span><\/i> reported<\/span><\/a> this Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most affected municipality is the provincial capital\u2015currently in the autochthonous transmission phase of the disease\u2015where 70 of its 106 schools have recessed since Monday, a measure that affects 30,850 students, the source noted.<\/span><\/p>\n

For its part, in Niceto P\u00e9rez\u2015also in the autochthonous transmission phase\u2015seven schools located in the La Yaya and Vilorio people\u2019s councils closed, while the 46 remaining schools located in that municipality will maintain their functions for the time being.<\/span><\/p>\n

The city of Guant\u00e1namo also saw the closure of five provincial centers, in which students from various municipalities study, while the departure of students from eight boarding schools, four of them provincial and the same number in Niceto P\u00e9rez, was ordered, <\/span>Venceremos<\/span><\/i> said, according to which eight day-care centers and six semi-boarding schools were reorganized in the provincial capital and classes are maintained in 13 primary schools and a mixed center in peripheral areas of the Guant\u00e1namo capital, as well as in the remaining municipalities, under strict sanitary measures.<\/span><\/p>\n

Coronavirus in Cuba: 487 new infections, two deaths and 3,057 active cases<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n