Overview
- The Melitón Carvajal school in Lince, which paused in-person teaching in four classrooms Tuesday, moved those sections to one week of virtual lessons during cleaning.
- National health leaders count about 80 to 88 school clusters this season and say infections have doubled compared with 2025.
- Lima’s education office now reports 144 student cases across 35 institutions and keeps suspensions limited to the affected classrooms for up to two weeks.
- Junín’s health authority reports 164 children affected in 41 schools and orders seven to ten days of home isolation for sick students, with full-class pauses only if spread grows.
- The joint Minedu–Minsa plan focuses on fast reporting to health teams, targeted disinfection, handwashing drives, and better ventilation to slow transmission in early grades.