Gjilan, 52 teachers infected with COVID-19

So far, no public school has been closed, while the Committee for Management and Prevention of the OVID-19 has closed two private schools after being considered a source of infection.

Haziri assured that all educators are in their own capacity and are being monitored by local health institutions.

Their total number is 52 in the Gjilan municipality, but it's manageable. These are in the privacy and 24-hour monitoring by the health institutions of the Gjilan municipality, staying at home, and there is no decision for collective closure of a school. Two private schools with recommendation, the committee management in Gjilan has closed them because they were, in the first case, a source of infection, and even public schools have been infected by this case”, Haziri said.

However, five classrooms have been temporarily closed and passed on to the C-Sender, which is online.

Haziri says public schools are not a source of infection, and that educators who have resulted have been affected by the SARS-COV-2 virus outside school environments.

Even a public school is not closed, five classrooms we have online instruction, according to option C we call in the strategy and plan to implement July this year under pandemic conditions, these five classrooms are in an elementary school in the municipality of Gjilan. We don't have a source of infection inside the school, the source of infection came from outside the school. In the first two cases we discovered, there were educators who were infected from abroad and who unfortunately resulted in even more infection in some cases, more in teachers than in students”, Haziri said of the kp.

Otherwise, Gjilan is the second municipality after Pristina in terms of the number of cases with COVID-19 with 1331 total infected. Of them, 1054 citizens have been healed, while 40 have lost their battle with this disease. Currently, according to Health Ministry data, there are 237 active cases in this municipality.