Argentine court orders city schools in Buenos Aires to open despite COVID-19 surge


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  • Monday, 19 Apr 2021

FILE PHOTO: A school director, Marcela Durak, checks the temperature of a girl at their school during the first day of the reactivation of face-to-face classes, as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Buenos Aires, Argentina February 17, 2021. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Schools in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires will open after all on Monday morning after a court over-ruled a federal order requiring classes go on-line for two weeks amid a surge in cases that has brought hospitals to near collapse.

The Buenos Aires judge ruled in favor of a lawsuit filed by non-governmental parent and some teachers' groups in the city, demanding a decree that suspended face-to-face classes in the capital region for 15 days be immediately nullified.

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