The last three high school grades will return to classrooms as of Monday (April 12), Education Minister Niki Kerameus announced on Wednesday, according to ANA.
During the regular live briefing on the pandemic, Kerameus noted that grades 10-12 were the first to return to class because they were out of school the longest and because graduating students had to prepare for university entrance exams at the end of the current school year.
Moreover, as both she and the Health ministers explained at the briefing, teachers, and students will have to take self-diagnostic tests twice a week before attending class. They have to enter the results on the online platform self-testing.gov.gr, which is already partly operational.
The system will issue both students and teachers with a negative test result card every Monday and Thursday. These are obligatory for both, with the students presenting theirs to teachers during roll call. Any teacher or student with a positive test result will be entitled to a free rapid test follow-up at a public hospital or health center.
The government’s online platform self-testιng.gov.gr is already open to the public, but the form to submit self-test results will become available on Sunday, said Alternate Health Minister Vassilis Kontozamanis on Wednesday.
At the live briefing on the pandemic, Kontozamanis said that coronavirus self-diagnostic tests will begin to be distributed to pharmacies nationwide on Thursday. Some 700,000 self-tests will become available to high-school students (16-18) and teachers by Friday, he noted.
To date, Greece has received 2 million self-tests and is due to receive another 7 million by week’s end.
Finally, Kontozamanis added that anyone who has been administered a molecular (PCR) coronavirus test 24-48 hrs prior to the reopening of upper grades of high schools on Monday (April 12) will not be required to self-test.
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