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COPENHAGEN: Public health official Anthony Fauci warned on Tuesday (May 12) of the dangers to children if American schools are reopened and California’s state university system, the largest in the United States, canceled classes. for the fall semester.
While EE. USA Discussing when to bring children back to classrooms, stage reopens have started in numerous countries around the world.
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This is how schools around the world try to protect children as they reopen:
SOCIAL DISTANCING MEASURES
Denmark eased its coronavirus blockade in mid-April by reopening schools and kindergartens, although concerns that it might become a breeding ground for a second wave of cases convinced thousands of parents to keep their children at home.
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The teaching staff there are under instruction to maintain social distance between children and, with many school buildings remaining closed, some teachers take students outside and write in chalk on the playground instead of a blackboard.
In Switzerland, the children of the La Tour de Geneva School had to adapt to new rituals, and the parents left them at a distance. Classrooms were half full to reduce overcrowding and desks 2 m apart.
Under a shelter in the yard in a heavy rain, the boys laughed while others played hopscotch and a girl helped a younger boy put on disposable gloves.
PLASTIC SHIELDS AND HAND DISINFECTANT
In the Netherlands, Springplank school in the city of Den Bosch installed plastic protectors around student desks and disinfectant gel dispensers on doors.
“Our teachers are not concerned,” said Rascha van der Sluijs, the school’s technical coordinator. “We have flexible displays that we buy so we can protect our teachers if students cough.”
FILE PHOTO: French Children Return to School in Nice
The Canadian province of Quebec reopened some of its schools on Monday, as some parents and teachers expressed uncertainty about the measure’s safety. The Ecole St-Gerard, in a Montreal suburb, opened staffed with visors and hand sanitizer.
STAGED SCHOOL CHANGES
Schools in Australia’s largest state, New South Wales, reopened on Monday, but only allowed students to attend one day a week on a staggered basis.
Australia’s second most populous state, Victoria, will resume classroom teaching starting May 27, weeks earlier than expected. The state, including the city of Melbourne, will allow teens first in classrooms, followed by younger students starting June 9, Andrew said.
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Israel reopened some schools this month, but the measure was boycotted by several municipalities and many parents who mentioned poor government preparation.
Equipped with masks and hand cleaners, the first three grades of primary school and the last two grades of secondary school were able to return, redistributed into classes with a limit of 15 students to impose social distancing.
Across France, elementary school students sat at least a meter away in small classes on Tuesday and listened to masked teachers on their first day back after two months of home schooling during the coronavirus blockade.
FILE PHOTO: French Children Return to School in Nice
TEMPERATURE TESTS AND CONTROLS
In Cyprus, health workers wearing personal protective equipment examined students for COVID-19 at a school in Nicosia after high school students were allowed to return after May 11.
In Shanghai, both students and staff were required to enter the school building through a thermal scanner when the school reopened last week after three months of closure. The walls are papered with posters about measures to fight the coronavirus, and in the school’s impeccably clean canteen, the glass walls divide the tables, so only two students can eat together.
FILE PHOTO: Students in facial masks are seen inside a classroom during a government-organized media tour of a high school as more students returned to campus after the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Shanghai, China, on May 7, 2020. REUTERS / Aly Song / File photo
It may be more like going to a hospital than a school, but Shanghai students who return to class after three months of confinement are delighted to be there.
“I am very excited to go back to school. Usually we are looking forward to the holidays but suddenly our holidays got so long,” Zhang Jiayi, 17, told Reuters. “This time, we wanted to go back to school, where we can see our friends and teachers.”
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