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The epidemiological situation of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, which is updated daily on the institution's website, shows how the incidence of COVID-19 has disappeared today in the UPCT campus, with no active positive case or preventive quarantine notified to the Occupational Risk Prevention Service in the last ten days. Since the beginning of the course, the UPCT has managed 24 positive cases, none of which have originated in the university centers, and all of them already have the mandatory medical discharge.

The 43 people who have been in quarantine since the beginning of classes have also returned to the university for being close contact with someone positive. The data reflect that the performance of the blended teaching model adopted by the UPCT, with reduced capacity in classrooms and laboratories and streaming broadcasts, is complying with the fundamental objective of protecting people's health, without significantly affect the quality of teaching. The instructions given by the UPCT to students and faculty for taking face-to-face exams during the month of November and the protocols adopted for entering and leaving the campus, disinfection and sealing of classrooms and restrictions on access and stay inside buildings.

It should be noted that all UPCT personnel and students from the university residence had voluntary access to serological tests for Covid-19. In relation to the blended teaching model adopted, the Vice Chancellor for Teaching Staff, Luis Javier Lozano, explains that “the priority is to recover the maximum volume of contact hours without undermining the safety of all staff in classrooms and laboratories.

The effort of the teaching staff is being commendable but it is not a comfortable situation for anyone and we are far from having completely overcome this situation.

We must be prudent while we study how to take advantage of the opportunities and consequences derived from this pandemic, after which the teaching and learning model is going to face an important adjustment in some of its traditional approaches ”.

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Source: UPCT