Exams amid the olives for students in coronavirus Italy


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  • Wednesday, 27 May 2020

Student Matteo Lenticchia, 19, carries out a simulation of a final exam outdoors while sitting at a wooden table in a garden of the Ciufelli Agricultural vocational school in this still picture taken from video in the Umbrian countryside near Todi, Italy, May 26, 2020. The school, which has been closed since March, is testing out how students will be able to take exams outdoors in June rather than inside school halls with other students, where there is a risk of contagion of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Picture taken May 26, 2020. REUTERS TV via REUTERS

TODI, Italy (Reuters) - Imagine taking your final exams sitting at a picnic table under blue skies amid olive groves and chirping birds on a breezy spring day in the Umbrian countryside.

That dreamlike scenario is what awaits the students of the Ciufelli Agricultural Institute as coronavirus has made indoor exams unsafe and impracticable.

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