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30 kindergartens across Cyprus have been closed due to covid outbreaks[/B], while several others are also underperforming due to covid.
As the Cyprus Times informs, dozens of children and teachers are quarantined either because they are sick or because they are close contacts, while the government announced new measures against the pandemic.
Asked to comment on the event, the president of the Association of Private Pre-School Education, Lavra Irakleous, pointed out that several kindergartens are informed daily that cases are increasing, which worries them.
"We have had incidents where children returned from quarantine one day and the next day they returned home because of another outbreak. There are clusters and outbreaks that have brought closure of both schools and classes," he said.
Asked about the measures and the announcement of the measure of mandatory rapid testing of children above 4 years of age once a week[/B] from February 21, she clarified that it is a measure that should be implemented to see if it works and has positive results.
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However, he noted that the increased cases brought murmurs and discontent parents, who refuse to pay kindergartens after their children are absent due to covid, so owners are suffering losses of thousands of euros.
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At the same time, the President of the Pancyprian Confederation of Federations of Parents and Guardians of Public and Community Kindergartens, Ioannis Ioannou, speaking to the Cyprus Times expressed his dissatisfaction with the mandatory rapid test measure in kindergartens, as well as the test to stay that is expected to be implemented in the next period.
"Test to stay is a measure that we consider to be a failure in primary education and we do not understand why it is now being implemented in nursery schools. It is also unnecessary and difficult to implement as children do not readily accept being subjected to rapid testing by strangers," he said.
As he explained, testingself[/B]test could be done by the parents themselves and could even be done more often, as children feel more intimate with their parents.
As for testtostay as Mr.Ioannou will be a measure that will cause inconvenience to parents who will be queuing up to convince their children to take a sample test.
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