WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland insisted on Monday that it will reopen schools next week for the first time since mid-March, despite a record number of coronavirus infections recorded at the end of last week.
Poland was first controlled to involve the epidemic, but cases began to accumulate in recent weeks and on Friday the government reported 903 new infections, the largest daily build-up to date.
The buildup of infections has worried some parents who are sending their children back to school.
“All children, when they are teenagers, go out on the street or in the store and can become infected. I don’t see a desire to postpone the start of the year (school),” Education Minister Dariusz Piontkowski told the press. reiterating the government’s position.
Children will not be required to wear masks in classrooms, however, individual directors would possibly impose this legal responsibility in hallways and locker rooms. No temperature control deserves to be introduced.
The ruling Nationalist Law and Justice Party (PiS) imposed strict restrictions in March to curb the spread of the virus and began mitigating them in May, which critics say to inspire Poles to vote in presidential elections.
In July, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki downplayed the threat of infection and said poles, coupled with older citizens, deserve not to be afraid to vote because the new coronavirus has a disease “like any other. “
The country of 38 million others reported a total of 62,310 cases and 1,960 deaths.
Schools around the world have a wide variety of reopening methods, ranging from completely online courses to fully face-to-face courses.
They value the reopening of schools with strict mitigation measures, as school closures are likely to harm educational progress, social and emotional development, intellectual fitness and food security.
(Report via Marcin Goclowski, Pawel Florkiewicz and Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk, edited through William Maclean)
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