2021-01-11 15:05:30 GMT2021-01-11 23:05:30(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
ATHENS, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) Pupils of primary schools, kindergartens and special education schools across Greece went back to school on Monday after two months of remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Although a nationwide lockdown which started on Nov. 7 is still in force until Jan. 18, officials, following experts advice, opted for the reopening of schools for younger children under special measures, taking all precautions to avert the further spread of the coronavirus.
While older pupils will continue online classes, children aged 5-11 returned to classrooms wearing face masks indoors and outdoors and using antiseptics.
Children wearing medical masks wait in line to get into their classrooms in Glyfada, a southern suburb of Athens, Greece, Jan. 11, 2021. (Xinhua/Marios Lolos) While older pupils will continue online classes in Greece, children aged 5-11 returned to classrooms Monday wearing face masks indoors and outdoors and using antiseptics. ATHENS, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) Pupils of primary schools, kindergartens and special education schools across Greece went.
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A medical staff member of the National Health Organization (EODY) prepares to conduct a COVID-19 rapid test on a municipal employee at a drive-through testing site in Athens, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) 1/10/2021 Athens News Agency
ATHENS The Hellenic National Public Health Organisation (NPHO) on Sunday announced that 445 confirmed new cases of Covid-19 have been detected in Greece in the last 24 hours, of which 12 were found during checks at entrances into the country. It also announced 36 deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, raising the total number of people killed by the virus in Greece to 5,263, of which 59 pct or 3,107 were men.