Chisinau deputy mayor says reopening of kindergartens implies big responsibilities for local authorities

Chisinau, 19 June /MOLDPRES/ - The Chisinau deputy mayor, Angela Cutasevici, at a today’s meeting of the Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC), said that 66 per cent of parents having children of pre-school age wanted to send them to kindergartens.

Cutasevici noted that the reopening of the pre-school institutions was within the competence of the National Extraordinary Public Health Commission and this was a huge responsibility for the local public authorities. ‘’On this period, 149 children and teachers have been identified positive for COVID-19. Four teachers working at pre-school education institutions have been recently declared positive for the new-type coronavirus. The reopening of kindergartens is a huge responsibility for us,’’ Angela Cutasevici also said.    

At the same time, the Chisinau city hall official specified that, if the kindergartens are reopened, the number of children in groups will be limited and the schedule of kindergartens’ work will be shorter. ‘’To be able to enforce the framework recommendations issued by the Education Ministry, the first to be accepted will be children from the upper pre-school group, as they better respond to teachers’ recommendations,’’ Cutasevici said.  

The state secretary at the Education Ministry, Natalia Grau, has recently said that the local public authorities had right to decide on the policy of children’s matriculation. This process will take place gradually, with the initial opening of two of three groups and with the initial selection of children whose parents are employed.   

According to recommendations by the Education Ministry, to re-open the pre-school institutions, all children and employees of these institutions will have to undergo a medical control. Only the vaccinated children could be allowed to attend the kindergartens. The institutions must be endowed with digital thermometers; each group will have two educators and ten children at the most and the institutions’ employees will not be older than 63 years.