EDUCATION Secretary Leonor Briones wants face-to-face classes to continue amid the pandemic saying that no case of Covid19 was recorded during the pilot implementation of physical classes.

“Wala kahit isang Covid19 incident, walang kahit anong serious incident,” Briones reported during President Rodrigo Duterte’s Talk to the People late Monday.

Students from Kindergarten to Grade 3 as well as Senior High School students in 272 public schools and 18 private schools participated in the pilot run of limited face-to-face classes.

“We thank you for allowing us to resume face-to-face classes, and we believe we can proceed as we continue the assessment of our schools,” Briones told the President.

DepEd Assistant Secretary Malcolm Garma earlier said the same thing during the Senate hearing, saying that learners who showed flu-like symptoms such as cough, fever, cold did not attend classes anymore since their parents decided to keep them at home.

The DepEd earlier expressed optimism that the conduct of face-to-face classes will move to its “expansion phase” by January 2022.

The Philippines has recorded four cases of the more transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant so far.