Shutting down 14 schools, infecting over 250 students and teachers

The Kukaj Sunez, official for information at the Ministry of Education and Science, says that the number of students infected with Coronavirus is 130, meanwhile of teachers 148.

All the schools that have already been closed are passed according to plan C, so learning is being held online. This is the balance of the infected we received on Friday (October 23rd) from all over Kosovo, so we have 148 teachers and 130 infected students”, Kukaj told Radio Free Europe.

Otherwise, the Ministry of Education has predicted that in this school year, learning will be accomplished through three scenarios. Scene A has to do with learning in school environments. Screenplay B, or combined learning involves the partial return of students to schools (school pressure combined and with learning in distance) and scenario C is learning at a distance or online.

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One of the students who has been teaching online for two weeks is Renea Munishi. It shows that in her class, at a high school “Don Bosko” in Pristina, a student came up positive with COVIED-19, the disease that causes the choreographer.

Afterward, Renea relates, instruction was moved online, and the whole class was tested for coronary by the National Public Health Institute.

We haven't gone to school in two weeks, but learning has continued online. This week we started learning at the facility. We've been tested by the National Public Health Institute with tests (with method) PCR. Four professionals came to school and got their student samples. It wasn't just us, there were other classes that were tested”, it shows.

At primary school “Faik Konica” in Pristina, instruction is being conducted according to scenario B, or combined learning, where one group of students for a week attends lessons from the school bank and the other keys online from home.

This scenario is being applied in this school, as in September, it was closed because four educators came up positive with coronarys.

The principal of this school, Jehona Oruqi, tells Radio Free Europe about how instruction is being developed in this educational institution.

“Our school has been two weeks on scenario C, so we've all been in online school, because four positive teachers have resulted. Now we're working on scenario B. There are two groups within the day, one of them online from the house directly to the classroom and the other group inside the classroom. We actually have an infected student, but she's been teaching from home. So everything is actually working well in terms of teaching”, Oruqi says.

Kosovo's pandemic peak has reached July and August, until later the number of infected has gone by marking decline. But, in the last three weeks in Kosovo, a slight increase in the number of coronary infected has been found.

In the last seven days, there have been 1,139 new cases of Corleone and ten victims in Kosovo.

Despite this, microbiologist Lull Raka said that for the time being no school closure has been discussed, and that the lesson will continue to be kept in school objects according to plan that schools have already made. But, he added, it depends on the epidemiological situation in the coming days.

Everything depends on the epidemiological situation. In Kosovo, although schools have been opened since mid-September, the number of cases of Coronavirus infected is now emerging as manageable. Those schools where there were infected have been passed on plan C, and learning is kept online”, Raka says.

With the Government of Kosovo plan, it has been the first to start on September 1st, but the date has been extended for two weeks at the request of the United Trade Union for Education, Science and Culture (SBASHK).

The latter said that the world did not provide the necessary conditions for children, teachers, and parents.

The Kosovo government has closed educational institutions since mid-March, when the first cases of corruption have emerged.

The rest of the school year, the students followed it online.