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After a total of 33 corona infections among teachers and students so far, the secondary school and the connected polytechnic in Großraming (Steyr-Land district) were temporarily closed on Monday. What did the Oö. News in its Tuesday edition.
“That will happen more often in the autumn and winter,” Education Minister Heinz Faßmann (ÖVP) said on Tuesday, on the sidelines of a news conference in Linz about the school’s closure.
Time to “catch your breath”
In high school, ten of the 25 teachers and eight of the 235 students have tested positive so far, according to the article. Now everything should be tested. Until the results are available, school operations have shifted to distance education for now.
“The first school in Upper Austria is closed, that’s not a cause for alarm,” said Fassmann. School closings are evident when the infection situation becomes confusing. The minister saw the 10-day fall break as “a good opportunity to catch my breath.”
It would be desirable for social contacts to be kept to a minimum during this time, and therefore infection with the virus was rejected, he suggested.
