Covid: Several schools in Zurich return to distance learning
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- 18 Mar 2022
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Unlike previous orders for students to study from home, these have come about on an ad hoc basis, with too many teachers in isolation for replacements to be found.
Switzerland’s Tages Anzeiger newspaper wrote on Wednesday “the state of emergency is back”.
Impacted schools include the Friedrichsstrasse secondary school in Zurich-Schwamendingen and the Kügeliloo in Zurich-Oerlikon.
In several classes, parents were only notified the day before that they should take care of their children at home.
Switzerland has seen a continued increase in case numbers since relaxing measures in mid-February, although hospitalisations and fatalities remain stable.
The cases have spiked recently in Zurich, which experts believe is to do with bad weather forcing people inside in previous weeks.
The peak of the infection wave is expected to be reached at the end of March, Swiss news outlet Blick reported on Wednesday. Read More…
