From March 3 to 10, the National Apprenticeship Service (Sign), sectional Atlantic, will keep open the call for face-to-face and distance training for those interested in training in different academic programs.
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“It is a fairly wide offer which includes more than 170 training programs at technical, technologist, and auxiliary levels. For the Atlantic, we will have 4,910 places, so whoever wants to study this is their opportunity,” he said. Jacqueline Rojas, Director Atlantic Regional Seine.
This offer has coverage in municipalities such as: Sabanalarga, Baranoa, Malambo, Palmar de Varela, Luruaco, Manatí, Galapa and Barranquillain such a way that the apprentices can be trained in the Sena training centers and nodes.
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Among the programs open to the entire community are: Multimedia Design and Integration Technician, Industrial Production Management Technologist, Nursing Technician, Public Health Technician, Foreign Trade Operations Technician, Sports Training Technologist, Woodworking Technician, Aluminum, Swine Production Technician, Food Processing Technologist, Manufacturing Process Supervision Technologist, Aircraft Maintenance Technician, among others.
If you are interested
Those who meet the requirements can register at www.senasofiaplus.edu.co following the instructions below:
1. Enter: http://oferta.senasofiaplus.edu.co/sofia-oferta/ 2. Click on What do you want to study?, enter the requested information and continue with the process. 3. If you are not registered, you must click on register and follow the steps. 4. If you are already registered, please enter the platform and select: Applicant Registration, Person Registration and Documents and upload your document. 5. Remember that you must upload the documents in PDF format in portrait orientation
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Those interested will have the possibility of choosing a program as a second option, as long as the one they initially applied for has not been selected, there are places available and they have a high score in the web tests.
Hong Kong’s fifth wave of coronavirus could see thousands of deaths, a new study said.
Slammed by the city’s fifth wave of COVID-19, Hong Kong is facing its worst health period since the pandemic began two years ago. It has forced the city’s government to implement strict measures, including compulsory tests for all Hong Kong residents.
February has seen thousands of new cases, mostly from the omicron variant. A new daily high of 10,010 infections was recorded Friday.
A study by the University of Hong Kong considered the potential outcomes from the current wave of coronavirus cases. One of the worst scenarios outlined that if the hospitals were to be overburdened, Hong Kong could see 7,000 COVID-19-related deaths by the end of June.
“The infection fatality risk may increase by 50% when the health care system becomes overburdened, in which case the cumulative number of deaths could further increase to 4,231 – 6,993,” the study said.
But it also said deaths could be half that number, about 3,200 by mid-May, if health measures remained.
‘Zero-COVID’ plan
Hong Kong had adopted a “zero-COVID” strategy, aligned with Beijing’s effort to control the pandemic across China. It had some success, with authorities quickly clamping down on rare outbreaks by contact tracing, social restrictions, mass testing and quarantine.
Fan Hung-ling, chairman of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, told the Chinese state’s Global Times thatthe strategy was “our country’s basic policy” and “won’t change.”
Earlier this month, Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered the city’s authorities to get the fifth wave under control. Xi is due to visit Hong Kong July 1, marking the 25th anniversary of the city’s return to China from Britain.
A QR code is seen at a temporary testing center for COVID-19 in Hong Kong, Feb. 24, 2022. Hong Kong started requiring proof of vaccination on Thursday to enter public places.
Last week, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam unveiled new measures for the city, including a requirement that residents have proof of vaccination against COVID-19 to enter various premises.
On Wednesday, Lam also announced compulsory testing for all residents by March, with a goal of boosting the city’s vaccination rate to 90%.
Dr. David Owens, an honorary assistant clinical professor at Hong Kong University, had hoped for a different plan of action.
“I would have preferred we would have shifted all of our energies that would effectively [be focused on] things that would save lives,” Owens told VOA. “That would be mitigation, to roll out vaccinations to the elderly and vulnerable. I have also argued we should move to rapid testing so we can break the transmission chains quickly.”
Need for home isolation
Dr. Karen Grepin, associate professor at the University of Hong Kong’s School of Public Health, responded to the mass strategy campaign.
“It is likely it will happen at a time very close to the peak of the outbreak and thus it will likely identify literally hundreds of thousands of cases, including likely many who are no longer infectious. It is unlikely that we will be able to isolate even a fraction of these cases, so unless it is coupled with a comprehensive home isolation strategy, it will have little impact on transmission,” Grepin told VOA.
According to data from the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, public hospitals are averaging an occupancy rate of 89%.
One health worker at Hong Kong’s United Christian Hospital, who chose to remain anonymous, admitted she was “afraid” of the pending testing program.
“Patients were crying,” she said. “A male patient said he had not eaten for 12 hours. And another patient said he wanted to commit suicide. And I started to cry. I cannot offer any more for them.
“I am so afraid of the universal testing program. We don’t have enough manpower for that. The government is so keen on a zero-COVID strategy. To me, it is a zero-medical staff strategy. The morale is worsened every day in the frontline.”
She described her job’s current conditions as like “working in a market.”
“It was so difficult to pass through the waiting hall,” she said. “We have to shout out to search the patients.”
A hospital van leaves the Penny’s Bay Quarantine Centre on Lantau Island, in Hong Kong, Feb. 24, 2022. Hong Kong launched a vaccination requirement to enter shopping malls, restaurants and a host of other places on Thursday.
Patients in beds outdoors
Last week, Hong Kong’s Caritas Hospital saw dozens of patients lying in hospital beds outside in cold weather, waiting to be admitted. But occupancy is was at 102%, the Hospital Authority said.
A nurse working at the hospital, who also chose to remain anonymous, said elderly patients “have nowhere to turn.”
“Patients are not severely sick from my ward, but [have a] lack of self-care ability. The virus is widely breaking out in elderly care homes and homes for disabilities. They cannot do self-isolation, as they are from the same care center. The staff [are] probably infected. Therefore, the patients literally have nowhere to go even if they turn negative,” she told VOA.
Hong Kong residents have also spoken to VOA about pandemic fatigue, venting their frustrations at the government’s new health measures.
And some expatriates are also looking to leave the city altogether. A Facebook group aimed at helping expatriates leave Hong Kong has already gained over 3,000 members, only days after being created.
Singapore for some
British citizen Niall Trimble, a job recruitment director at Ethos BeathChapman, an executive recruitment firm in Hong Kong, has decided to move elsewhere in Asia.
“I would say the reason for leaving is the lack of flexibility compared to other places on the COVID situation,” he told VOA. “As a recruiter across technology and financial services I am already seeing a huge influx of candidates looking to move to Singapore and also clients looking to move operations to Singapore.”
Hong Kong’s economy fell into a two-year recession in 2019 and 2020. But last year the city saw growth of 6.4% as coronavirus cases remained low.
But Hong Kong has now recorded at least 84,000 cases, with 2022 alone seeing more infections than the last two years combined.
Hong Kong’s finance chief unveiled a budget of over $20 billion to cope with the outbreak, which will include an electronic spending voucher for each resident.
Hong Kong authorities are set to loosen the strategy on rapid testing and allow home isolation for positive cases, the South China Morning Post reported Friday.
A breast cancer suffered by his mother motivated the math and physics teacher Eder Antonio Linares Vargas to initiate studies that contribute to the understanding of this pathology that comes to life for many women in the world every day.
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“My mother has ductal breast cancer and they had to remove her left breast plus some lymph nodes in her left arm. she was in chemotherapy”, says the teacher from Barranquilla.
It is in this moment of adversity where he confesses that his desire to understand how a normal cell it becomes cancerous.
“That is my greatest motivation to start this research,” explains this professor who has spent months fighting and knocking on doors for help to start his project.
Linares has a degree in mathematics and physics from the Atlantic University. Master in Applied Physics from the University of Zulia (Venezuela).
“I was in Mexico at the University of Sonora working on the Physicochemistry of triple negative breast cancer,” he says that he has also been a professor at the Uniatlantico, the CUC, ITSA and the uninorte from Barranquilla.
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My mother has breast cancer. She was in chemotherapy. That is when my desire to understand how a normal cell becomes cancerous is born.
For his study of cancer cells has consulted scientific articles and assures that he found that “as based on the partial failure of medical oncologists, biologists, biochemists, etc., in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in early stages, physicists and mathematicians begin to contribute to the understanding of this pathology,” he says.
“Undoubtedly, in order to improve the diagnosis of cancer in its early stages, monitor the disease and carry out adequate treatment, it is necessary to resort to new technologies such as nanomedicine. A very new and cutting-edge technological trend is based on the use of nanomaterials for theranostic purposes”, he indicates.
He won a scholarship to study in Argentina
Linares applied for a scholarship for a doctorate in Argentina with the Conicet, the counterpart of Colciencias in Colombia. It is an international scholarship, where the academic averages of the courses studied are evaluated, especially in the master’s degree. The resume of each student and the possible lines of research to be followed are also evaluated. “Thank God I managed to get the scholarship.”
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But its economy is not the best. “I have a contract with the Secretary of Education of Barranquilla, I asked them for financial support for paperwork and air tickets and the response was not favorable.
Professor Linares is married and has a four-month-old baby, whom he cannot leave alone to study in Argentina.
“The Institute of Atomic and Nuclear Physics of Bariloche where I would carry out my initial study, has a kind of nursery for the care of the young children of researchers and doctoral students with families and there is the possibility that she will also start a professional career in that country” explains the professor who is applying help for document procedures: The Mercosur visa as a family nucleus and the one-way air tickets to Bariloche Argentina.
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“I hope and seek the help of some entity or person who understands the importance of a Colombian being linked to this type of investigation,” says a resident of Vivo en el Barrio New Colombia in Barranquilla. People interested in helping him can contact him at 3052814445.
LEONARDO HERRERA DELGANS Correspondent of EL TIEMPO Barranquilla @leoher69 Write me at leoher@eltiempo.com
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