OFFICIAL – Kindergartens and extracurricular activities DO NOT CLOSE in Bucharest. Authorities turned around after a few hours – Source News



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Last minute decision of the Bucharest Municipal Committee for Emergency Situations! After it was decided at noon that it was forbidden to conduct all forms of face-to-face education, at a further emergency meeting held tonight it was decided that kindergartens and after-school schools would not close in Bucharest. “It was a material mistake, a correction was made,” explained Stancu-Țipișcă Mariana, spokesperson for the Bucharest prefecture, at the end of the meeting. All schools, high schools and universities remain on the red stage, meaning all courses will be held exclusively online, starting Tuesday.

The Bucharest Committee for Emergency Situations decided, this Monday, in an extraordinary meeting, after the rate of infections due to the new coronavirus exceeded yesterday and today the red threshold of 3 cases per thousand inhabitants, that “as of 00.00 hours of October 20 “, the following will take effect:

  1. Face-to-face teaching activity will be suspended, including nurseries and universities. Therefore, the school will be conducted exclusively online, for all forms of education. The wording of the Decision is a bit confusing. “Teaching activities involving face-to-face presence are temporarily suspended, from kindergartens, the gymnasium, pre-university courses and university cycle courses that are carried out online (Scenario 3),” he writes in the Document. The cycle of nurseries and gymnasiums (grades 5-8) is invoked, not the kindergartens and the primary cycle (grades 0-4), but at the same time the pre-university cycle is mentioned, which contains all forms of education from the 3 at 19 years old.
  2. It is forbidden to work in cinemas, theater halls.
  3. The use of a mask in the nose and mouth, and outdoors, is mandatory for people over 5 years of age.
  4. The indoor activity of restaurants, cafes, bars is prohibited.
  5. The activity of economic operators in the interior is allowed only for clients staying in pensions and hotels.
  6. It is forbidden to activate game rooms

The original document can be consulted here.



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