ANSA: Distance learning decision hard, contagion curve concerning-Conte

ROME. KAZINFORM The government's decision to raise distance learning at Italian schools to at least 75% amid a second COVID wave was a tough one to take but the infection curve is «concerning» and it had to be taken, Premier Giuseppe Conte said Monday.

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Some regions including Abruzzo and Calabria have already decided to shift all teaching to distance learning, moving to 100% - as has Milan, ANSA reports.

Speaking at a high school at a ceremony honouring Willy Monteiro, a 21-year-old Cape Verdian-Italian beaten to death after trying to help a friend from a street gang, Conte said «we worked hard for in-presence teaching, and now we must boost distance learning because the contagion curve has really become very worrying».

But he said: «we are counting on doing it for just a few weeks only, the time needed to bring the curve back under control. «

These rules of caution make us distant, alas, but we are all close in fighting violence.

«You students, too, for the most part will embrace the logic of distance learning.»