Albania will start to shut down schools as of December 1 in efforts to prevent the coronavirus spread in the country. Minister of Health Ogerta Manastirliu said the majority of schools will start online lessons starting from next month.

“We have repeated continuously the children’s health comes first. Children have not been important transmitter of the virus so far. The protocols in the school have been applied, but, in order to minimize the risks, considering other respiratory infections too, we have decided to the Ministry of Education to apply the scenarios of combined online and in-class lessons, starting on December 1”, said the minister.