The Minister of Education, Besa Shahini and the Minister of Health, Ogerta Manastirliu said today in a joint conference that they accept the opening of educational facilities for the new academic year, but with strict health security measures.
“According to a questionnaire for schools for students, parents and teachers, 87% think that we should go back to school at the beginning of the school year and only 13% want learning from home. We agree with you and therefore we have developed several scenarios for the possibility of opening schools depending on the type of school, the number of students, the condition of the premises and the need of the community to be physically in schools. There are schools that can open normally as distancing can be maintained, there are schools that work in shifts, but we will divide them into small groups, there are other schools in earthquake hit areas that have large numbers that need to be organized in another form for returning to school and maintaining social distance, dividing them into more shifts or taking them to the nearest schools “, said education minister Shahini.
Health minister Manastirliu stated: “Every decision for the opening of schools is being coordinated with maximum responsibility by the institutions for guaranteeing social distancing measures and of course by assessing the dynamics of the epidemiological situation. From the epidemiological point of view, from the systematic assessments carried out by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, it results that the transmission of the disease in schools has been rare and if appropriate measures of physical distancing, hygiene and others are taken, they are unlikely to to be effective environments for increasing the transmission of the virus, this compared to places with the same density of people, such as work centers or entertainment venues”.
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