The two-week closure of 15 schools and 28 day care institutions in Kolding Municipality is now over.
From Monday, they will be allowed to open again. The authorities have notified the municipality, municipal director Thomas Boe informs JydskeVestkysten.
It was 19 February that corona infection at the schools Munkevænget, Brændkjærskolen and in the nursery Agtrupvej as well as an increasing number of infections in the city led the authorities to close schools and day care institutions.
In the last nine days, however, there have been declining infection rates in Kolding, and according to JydskeVestkysten, the weekly infection rate has fallen from 302 to 162 people.
Municipal director Thomas Boe tells the newspaper that the municipality will continue to keep an eye on the number of infections.
– It is gratifying that we can reopen the schools and day care institutions. But we must continue to focus on getting the number even further down, so the reopening does not mean that we have to drop all the good advice about, for example, alcohol and distance, he says.
Kolding Municipality received the message on Friday around 5.30 pm.
According to the newspaper, this is the third week in a row that the municipality’s top management will not be notified until late Friday whether the authorities will have extended the closure or reopened.
It is not satisfactory, says Thomas Boe.
Still, not all students can return to school on Monday. As is also the case in most of the country, the schools are only opened few students in 0.-4. grade.
The oldest students are still waiting to be allowed to return to school.
Source: The Nordic Page