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Belén López: "Our only objective has been and is for children to resume their educational activity in safe places and with all the maximum benefits.

To do this, we extend these jobs with two more hours a day per center to cover their hygienic needs.

to Covid-19 ".The City Council, through the Department of Education and Infant Schools, led by Belén López, will guarantee the safety of face-to-face education to the more than 28,000 students, who will return to the classrooms next Monday, with the reinforcement of the cleaning service and disinfection of the 116 public schools for Infant and Primary Education in the municipality of Murcia.“To do this, we expanded the cleaning service by offering municipal centers a total of 232 more hours a day, two per school, in order to help them meet their hygiene needs against Covid-19.

Our only objective has been and is for children to resume their educational activity in safe places and with all the maximum benefits ”, explained Belén López.The mayor has held a meeting this morning with the Association of Infant and Primary Directors (Direcmur), on behalf of the municipality's management teams, to inform them of this action, framed within the Cleaning and Disinfection Plan against Covid-19 , which will be fully assumed by the council with a budget of around 250,000 euros, apart from funds from the central government to face the pandemic.More than 250 professionals will be in charge of keeping the public schools in the municipality of Murcia in perfect condition.

Four companies are responsible for this service which, starting next week, will extend their daily work by two more additional hours for special jobs due to the coronavirus.The person in charge of Education of the City of Murcia has indicated that “the schedule and distribution of these tasks will be in charge of the educational centers themselves, which will transmit to the company their most urgent cleaning needs in order to adapt the work to the characteristics of each space or facility ”.Disinfection of tables, knobs and railingsThis additional cleaning and disinfection reinforcement will be specially designed for those most vulnerable surfaces or those with greater daily contact, such as doorknobs, railings, chairs, light switches, wastebaskets, cabinets, tables, counters, computer equipment, toiletries.

, etc.In addition to the adequate ventilation of each of the spaces and the intensification in common areas, such as the patio, classrooms, teachers' rooms, offices, assembly halls, offices, libraries, laboratories, gyms, corridors, stairs, railings, services and changing rooms.Special action at the entrances to the centersThe special disinfection and cleaning plan against the coronavirus also acts in a special way in the accesses and environments of all educational centers in the municipality of Murcia.

In these spaces we act withhydro-cleaning equipment with a capacity of up to 400 liters of water and the use of diluted sodium hypochlorite applied by a pole to optimize the result.Cleaning throughout the yearThe City Council is in charge of the maintenance and conservation of the 116 public centers in the municipality of Murcia.

Among the actions, there is the cleaning service, contracted through six lots, in which it invests more than 5.6 million euros a year for an area of ??more than 4,000,000 square meters.The works are daily, from Monday to Friday, but, in addition, additional sanitation actions are included during holiday periods, such as Christmas, Easter and summer.It should be noted that this service, dependent on the Department of Education and Nursery Schools, has not ceased during the state of alarm.

"Since the beginning of the pandemic, the cleaning work not only continued, but also intensified in order to keep the facilities clean and in perfect condition at all times to be used as soon as possible."Specifically, the actions focused on the ventilation of spaces and deep cleaning of all surfaces that have direct contact with people, with soap and water or detergents.Continuity of the service to Técnicas y Servicios Integrales de LevanteOn the other hand, the Governing Board today approved the continuity of the cleaning service in schools dependent on the Murcia City Council, corresponding to lots 1 and 2, by the company Técnicas y Servicios Integrales de Levante from September 16 with a increase of two hours a day.In this way, the City Council has given the company the green light to continue providing these tasks while the final contracting is formalized, due to the risk of contagion and expansion of Covid-19 that would mean stopping the aforementioned service in the affected schools.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia