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By Radu-Sorin Marinas
BUCHAREST, 14 September (Reuters) – Romania reopened schools for 2. 8 million young people on Monday after a six-month close to combat the coronavirus outbreak, ordering academics to wear masks as infections increase.
With 104,000 cases and new infections exceeding 1,000 per day since July, millions of teachers, academics and parents face an overwhelming challenge to adapt after months of online education at home.
The peak among the fastest in Europe, along with Spain, France, Malta and Croatia, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
More than 17,000 have reopened.
President Klaus Iohannis imposed a strict closure across the country of another 20 million people in March and, restrictions have been relaxed, masks are mandatory on public transport and indoor public spaces since 15 May.
Iohannis suggested scholars “to superheroes who wear masks, wash their hands and pay attention to their teachers, protect parents and grandparents, with the utmost threat of getting sick. “
“I’ll wash my hands with disinfectant, sit down with the onArray mask . . . We will use it for 4 hours,” said Maria Militaru, 6, before her first day at a school near the exercise station. ‘East Bucharest.
“We hope everything’s okay, ” said his mother. He expressed his fear about whether the government would return to online education: “We may lose our jobs. “
School sports that involve physical contact, such as basketball, are prohibited.
Knowledge of the government showed that 4,503 new cases were registered since Friday, bringing the total to 104,187 cases, with 4,185 deaths.
Early Monday, some academics demonstrated outdoors at the Ministry of Education, raising inflatable pink pigs to protest the authorities’ failure to comply with the commitment to distribute around 250,000 electronic tablets needed for online courses (edited through Janet Lawrence).