DepEd-Zambo City chooses 119

schools for limited F2F classes

 

The Department of Education (DepEd) here announced the selection of 119 primary and secondary schools to join the limited face-to-face (F2F) classes once the alert status of the city is downgraded from Level 3 to 1.

Dr. Rosalio Conturno Jr., governance and operations section chief of DepEd’s city schools division, said Monday only students from Kindergarten to Grades 3, 11, and12 will join in the limited F2F classes.

The national Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) announced Sunday that Zamboanga City will be placed under Alert Level 1 effective March 1 to 15.

Under Alert Level 1, the IATF said there are no restrictions in terms of indoor and outdoor capacities. Everyone can undertake intrazonal and interzonal travel without regard to age and even comorbidities.

“We are ready to conduct limited F2F classes once the alert level status of the city will be downgraded,” Conturno said.

The DepEd started its pilot F2F classes on Dec. 6, 2021 in two elementary schools and one national high school but was suspended when the national IATF placed the city under Alert Level 3.

Meanwhile, Conturno said they fully support the vaccination of children aged five to 17 to achieve population protection against the coronavirus disease 2019.

Some 54 percent of students aged 12 to 17 have received the Covid-19 vaccine in preparation for the limited F2F classes, he said. 

They do not have yet the estimated number of vaccinated children aged five to 11.