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Final government decisions to close elementary schools are postponed until tomorrow Saturday.
Despite the announcements that the Minister of Education, Niki Kerameos, would participate in today’s briefing on the evolution of the pandemic, this did not happen, as the minister’s teleconference with the competent commission of infectious diseases of the Ministry of Health is still ongoing.
The committee will then present its proposal to the government that will make the decisions.
In particular, as announced at the beginning of the briefing, “the meeting of the experts has not finalized, so the decisions for primary schools, which will be taken tomorrow by the Minister of Education, Niki Kerameos, have not yet been made. finalized “. 
Ongoing meetings
The decision to close primary schools as of Monday, November 16 appears to have been taken, however what remains to be clarified is whether the closure will affect schools across the country or only those in Thessaloniki, which is extremely epidemiologically burdened.
According to the information, both kindergartens and nurseries have also fallen on the table. At the moment, however, there is no decision, however it is estimated that once the primary schools are closed, this will lead to the closure of the kindergartens.
Government spokesman Stelios Petsas had previously ruled out closing elementary schools to further reduce mobility and halt the second wave of the pandemic.
It is recalled that Kyriakos Mitsotakis clarified yesterday that even for the opening of secondary schools and lyceums, specific smart tests will be carried out, the results of which will determine whether secondary schools will finally open on November 30.
How the lessons will be done
In the event of the suspension of the operation of primary schools, the Minister of Education stated that they will go to two levels that are ready:
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 for the projection of educational episodes
Long distance educationAt the same time, the minister pointed out that all institutes and high schools today are in distance education without problems, while pointing out that “arrhythmias will exist and we are here to solve them, we are talking about a huge project with the 2nd day of education remote to have more than 3 participants, 2 million connected students and more than 9 million minutes of lessons.
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