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144 schools in Greece are closed. Junior and senior high schools will reopen from February 1.

144 schools in Greece are closed. Junior and senior high schools will reopen from February 1.

by YCPress

As of January 25, local time, according to the data of the Greek Ministry of Education, a total of 144 schools in Greece, including kindergartens, primary schools and special education institutions, have been temporarily closed to varying degrees due to confirmed cases of COVID-19 or close contacts.

This is only two weeks after Greece reopened schools.

January 11, all kindergartens, primary schools and special education institutions in Greece were reopened, and all students returned to school for a new semester in 2021.

In addition, the Greek Ministry of Education said on the 22nd that junior high schools and senior high schools in Greece will reopen from February 1.

However, in the area of “enhanced lockdown”, only junior high schools are allowed to open.

High schools will continue to implement distance learning, and extracurricular remedial schools remain closed.

As of the 25th local time, according to the data of the National Public Health Organization of Greece, in the past 24 hours, 436 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Greece, a total of 152,412 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 5,671 deaths.

According to the Greek public health organization, statistics as of the 24th local time show that 32 cases of COVID-19 variant infection in the United Kingdom have been confirmed in Greece.