{"id":277269,"date":"2020-12-01T06:15:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T11:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=277269"},"modified":"2020-12-01T06:15:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T11:15:57","slug":"physical-classes-may-be-allowed-in-covid-free-low-risk-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/12\/01\/physical-classes-may-be-allowed-in-covid-free-low-risk-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical classes may be allowed in Covid-free, low risk areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_195914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195914\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-195914\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duque.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duque.jpg 660w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duque-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Health Secretary Francisco Duque III (Photo by Ma. Teresa Montemayor\/PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said on Tuesday that face-to-face classes may be considered in areas where there is a low number of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases or with minimal risk.<\/p>\n<p>In a television interview, Duque said reassessment of places with zero Covid-19 infections may be done in line with the holding of face-to-face classes but the practice of minimum health standards must be prioritized by the respective schools in these areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Kung ang lugar naman ay<\/em>\u00a0Covid-free for I think, two weeks or four weeks,\u00a0<em>walang<\/em>\u00a0risk halos,\u00a0<em>mababa ang<\/em>\u00a0risk,\u00a0<em>baka doon pwedeng pagbigyan. Basta<\/em>\u00a0(If the area is Covid-free for I think, two weeks or four weeks, almost no risk, the risk is low, face-to-face classes could be allowed. As long as) very low risk or minimal risk, I think that could be considered whether face-to-face classes will be allowed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, some senators have already called for the resumption of limited and localized face-to-face classes in low-risk areas in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Education Secretary Leonor Briones emphasized that there will be no face-to-face classes this year and resumption of such would be &#8220;limited to areas which are absolutely safe based on conditions set by the Department of Health and the Department of Education (DepEd).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Briones added that face-to-face classes would not start, all at the same time, even if President Rodrigo Duterte allows it.<\/p>\n<p>Learners nationwide study through the different distance learning modalities that the DepEd has set up &#8211; modular, online, television, and radio-based instruction learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said on Tuesday that face-to-face classes may be considered in areas where there is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":195914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ma-teresa-montemayor","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277271,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277269\/revisions\/277271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}