“Plan A” is the national return to face-to-face courses
Daily instances would likely have to go through more than 900 depending on the day.
Some most affected spaces and cities may remain online on August 31
Graphic: Stabilization in Turkish tmsnrt.rs/30WLYVc
By Orhan Coskun and Ezgi Erkoyun
ANKARA / ISTANBUL, July 28 (Reuters) – Turkey plans to reopen schools across the country on August 31 for students to return to study rooms and loose parents, assuming a recent stabilization of coronavirus cases continues.
Teachers and directors are preparing fitness precautions on the spot, however, two government resources told Reuters that the infection rate would likely have to fall below the more than 900 recently observed to allow them to carry out what they called Plan A.
Schools switched to distance education in March, when Turkey learned its first case and began to restrict circulation.
Much of the economy reopened on June 1, after the end of the school year, but masks and other hygiene measures are still in public.
“We were told that schools would reopen, so let’s see how it goes,” said a freshman instructor in the southern city of Antalya. “I feel a little involved because of the fitness of my students and my family, of course.”
About part of the nearly 230,000 cases and more than 5,600 deaths in Turkey occur in its largest city, Istanbul, according to the government. The capital Ankara and Diyarbakir in the basically Kurdish southeast were also hot spots.
A government source said that “if the number of instances decreases, all schools will be opened,” but differently, schools in highly infected spaces may remain closed.
At one point, a senior official said the categories would likely have to remain in line for some southeastern provinces. “Standardization is underwayArray … however, the numbers have declined more rapidly.”
A number one school instructor founded in the Southeast said some of her academics may simply not take online courses, adding, “Online training can never be as effective as classroom learning.”
President Tayyip Erdogan and his cabinet will make a final resolution by the end of next month on the spread of infection and the recommendation of scientists, authorities said.
The Turkish economy stamened in the current quarter and is expected to contract this year. (To view an instance chart in Turkey, click here: tmsnrt.rs/3jNb1Tp)
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