The Minister of Education, Sorin Cimpeanu, declared that according to the current "rules", if on Friday the infection rate with the new coronavirus is over six per thousand, starting on Monday the schools will move to online courses. However, personally, he chooses that the educational units carry out didactic activity with physical attendance, agerpres reports.
He said he would do "anything" to keep the schools open with a physical attendance.
"If by Friday a common opinion based on the experience of those with medical competence... what we, those in Education, want is less important, as if they asked me, apart from anything, I would say: 'yes, I want to do everything so that the schools stay open with a physical attendance. It's just that my point of view is not decisive, because I don't have medical, much less epidemiological competence," the representative of the Ministry of Education specified.
Cimpeanu mentioned that a survey conducted at a school in Bucharest showed that 99% of parents do not want to test their children.
"I am very sad. I just found out the answer to a survey in a school in Bucharest in which 99% of parents said they do not agree with the tests, be they nasal, pharyngeal or saliva extract," he added.