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About 130,000 students of the District Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) were absent from school during the first few days back from winter break due to the wave of cases of COVID-11, powered by the variant Ómicron.
Last Tuesday, students and staff in LAUSD, the second largest school district in the United States, were supposed to return to class.
But the coronavirus pandemic has prevented some 130,000 students of those currently enrolled will perform, the Los Angeles Times reported this Friday.
In addition to student absences, have also been absent teachers and employees s to the schools, so office administrators and substitute teachers have had to work in the classrooms.
Alberto Carvalho, the new superintendent of LAUSD , noted at an event Friday that all District schools are open and parents will continue to be informed that Los Angeles schools are safe.
“These are safe places due to the protection measures that exist here. Parents must understand that, they must take their children to school”, warned Carvalho in statements collected by the newspaper.
The problems with the return were seen coming after more than 2021 were reported ,000 positive cases among students and employees one day before return.
Last week LAUSD ordered students and staff to undergo mandatory COVID testing before returning to schools after winter break.
By Monday afternoon 424,257 students and employees they had been tested for COVID-19. The result was not very encouraging, since 65,630 gave a positive result.
On Tuesday, when schools reopened, 17 % of students and 15 % of staff tested positive. For Thursday the positives were 13.6% between students and 13.3% for workers.
LAUSD has developed an ambitious coronavirus testing system with more than 424, mandatory each week.
Los Angeles is experiencing a surge in COVID cases fueled by the Ómicron variant , and this Friday the county health authorities reported that on Friday they counted 40,600 new cases and 48 deaths and the day before were counted 45,65 new cases and 15 deaths, and that 4,257 people remain hospitalized for this cause.
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