(ANSA) - TEHRAN, SEPTEMBER 05 - President Hassan Rouhani greeted the new academic year today by videoconference, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, underlining the need to comply with strict protocols to curb the spread of the virus but that "education will not stop even under circumstances difficult situations in which our country finds itself ".
The academic year started in Iran two weeks earlier than usual, to make up for lost time during the lockdown.
In the new year, only students residing in the most high-risk areas will continue with distance learning. The government has partially revised its initial plan to restore face-to-face education everywhere after health authorities and parents criticized the initiative sharply, believing that the school's 14 million students, in both low- and medium- and high-risk areas, would be at risk. contagion if they return to overcrowded classrooms. (HANDLE).