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Tip to close the Primary schools in Thessaloniki made his committee infectious disease specialists, according to information from CNN Greece. In fact, it is not ruled out that this measure will be extended to the rest of Greece, if, of course, the experts and the government consider it necessary.
Following the suggestion of the experts, the decision is now in your hands Prime Minister which is expected to decide whether further action will be taken in the co-capital, located at “Red»Because of the pressure that hospitals are receiving but also their constantly growing number of coronavirus cases.
Speaking Friday morning on Alpha 98.9 radio station, the Vassilis Kikilias confirmed that new measures are on the table for Thessaloniki, noting at the same time that they will refer mainly to schools.
These measures may be announced during today’s regular coronavirus update.
Vassilis Kikilias also expressed concern about the situation in the city:
«It worries me a lot What’s going on. Yesterday’s vigil closed with 80 admissions and 20 suspected cases. Calculate this number every day for the next 10 to 15 days. We prepare an emergency plan, from heart surgery, vascular surgery rooms and we have another 100, when all of northern Greece is pressed and they have incidents from Thessaloniki at 70% and 30% in the surrounding areas. “
“There are emergencies and, apart from the coronavirus, the traffic, the heart, it is obvious that the NSS can and can resist and deal with them as well. “Across Europe and the world, it is obvious that regular surgeries are decreasing and this is fatally happening, especially in northern Greece,” he added.
How will the lessons be done if the elementary schools are closed?
In the event of the suspension of the operation of primary schools, the Minister of Education Niki Kerameos He said Thursday that they will move on to two levels that are ready:
1. Educational television
More than 220 lessons have been recorded from scratch, a library has been built on the voluntary offer of teachers that will be carried out in collaboration with ERT to broadcast educational episodes.
2. Distance education
At the same time, the minister pointed out that all gyms and high schools today are in distance education without problems, while pointing out that “arrhythmias There will be and we are here to solve them, we are talking about a great project with the 2nd day of distance learning to have the participation of more than 3.2 million connected students and more than 9 million minutes of lessons ”.
Asked about the problem they found in platform e-learning and the relevant comments of the opposition for the absence of an alternative plan, she herself affirmed that this system had been tested at the national level in the spring during the closure and that there is no better proof of insanity than this and it had already worked.
The minister invited the representative of each party to see the contract with the CISCO company, which has launched the e-learning platform. “Is about donation. “The Greek state has not spent a single euro,” he characteristically said.
About the fact that primary schools are open and at the same time some are closed tutorials offering services to primary school children (e.g. foreign languages, study) stated that the committee’s recommendation was to keep specific schools (primary and special schools of each grade) open for specific reasons, while noting that the basic principle of committee is not mixing groups of students with each other.
The offer of schools with laptops continues
The Ministry of Education announced this Thursday that it has insured for primary and secondary schools across the country 65,965 mobile devices worth more than 20 million euros through NSRF Y 25,648 mobile devices worth more than 4 million euros through donations responding to the unprecedented conditions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, launching the additional equipment as early as the spring.
This equipment, which has already been or will be delivered to the schools, is the property of the schools and is available to students and / or teachers for temporary use, in order to facilitate the implementation of distance education, but also to contribute in the long term to the deepening of digital skills.
Priority is given to supporting families on the basis of social and other criteria, in particular low income, unemployment parents / guardians, membership single, large, three-child or orphan family, or the existence of special learning difficulties.
For the distribution of the devices in the school units, social criteria are taken into account, starting from areas with low GDP per capita, inaccessible, schools of special education and training, vocational training, etc., as well as the educational level.
The exact number of devices per school is determined based on the student population and existing equipment of the school units.
The Ministry has ensured that all schools in the country receive mobile devices.
