It goes to 99 the number of schools going online after COVID-19 infection

Increasing cases of coronavirus have led 99 schools in Kosovo to switch to online learning. This is how she has made it known about Telegrafi, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Education, Iliriana Pylla.

The latest data we received yesterday afternoon from the municipal education directorates show that 99 schools in the Republic of Kosovo have gone to online school”, Pylla said.

It has made it known that in addition to 99 schools that have passed online instruction, eight other schools are in scenario A, while in scenario B are 11 more.

Out of 664 schools working on the reverse scenario, 99 of them have moved into scenario C where teaching is being carried out on the platform online. According to data in scenario A are eight schools, scenario B, 11 and scenario C, 99 schools”, Pylla said.

The MASTI spokeswoman announced that the number of students and teachers affected with COVID-19 is about 8 thousand.

There are actually 1,000 375 active infected teachers and 6 thousand and 344 students. The Ministry of Education has made a decision that school Task Force in co-operation with the Municipal Education Directors depending on the situation presented with the pandemic to make a decision on passing instruction on the online platform”, Pylla said.

Despite this situation, Pyla has made it known that education and education-related management of health institutions have estimated that schools should be the last to be closed.

We remember that Task Force at the level of August, at the meeting held on January 20, 2022, issued the recommendation to review the school's access to scenario C ( Online teaching) on one of these cases respectively:

• If 2 or more cases of infection are confirmed within 3 days of students with the SARS-Cavid-19 virus within one class;

• If more than 5% of school students are currently infected with the SARS-Cavid-19;

• If the level of infection among the school staff is such that work shortages cannot be organised by physical presence teaching.

Yesterday, 4 thousand and 397 new coronavirus cases were confirmed.