Axel Bech says he is " happy " to see his school reopening its doors after a month of closure and to be able to contemplate " the faces of schoolchildren so happy to find themselves as at every return to school ". Director of Oester Farimasgade Skole, in Copenhagen, he had, like all his colleagues in Denmark, to " prepare " his sixty teachers and pedagogues for " an extraordinary return to school, in conditions of drastic safety and hygiene ".
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The first country in Europe to decide to reopen crèches, kindergartens, kindergartens and primary classes, Denmark justified this choice by the resistance of children to the coronavirus. According to Kaare Moelbak, technical director of the Institute of State Serology (SSI), 1.8% of children aged 0 to 9 years tested positive and 2.6% up to 18 years, against 10 to 11 % for adults.
Most parents were relieved by this reopening. It has spanned several days since April 15 to allow municipalities, managers of crèches
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