HAVANA.- Schools in a large part of Cuba are preparing the details for the return to classrooms, tomorrow, of thousands of students under strict hygienic-sanitary measures in order to avoid the spread of COVID-19.

Five months after the suspension of teaching activities due to the pandemic, face-to-face classes will return in almost the entire country, except in Havana and in communities with cases of patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, according to the website of the Cuban Foreign Affairs Ministry Relations.

There are about 355,000 students who will remain at home. These are residents in the 15 municipalities of Havana and in another seven communities in the western provinces of Pinar del Rio, Artemisa, Matanzas and Villa Clara.

The Minister of Education, Ena Elsa Velazquez, specified that the teaching calendar in those territories will be applied when students return to classrooms.

Velazquez explained that within the teaching centers the use of masks), frequent hand washing and the disinfection of surfaces will be mandatory, among other provisions to which is added the distancing inside and outside classrooms.

Likewise, for those who continue with the suspended classes, a television program will be broadcast that will also begin tomorrow with a special magazine where they will explain how classes will be in the coming weeks.