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More than 1.2 million students return to class this week in Portugal

Lisbon (Portugal), Sep 14 (EFE).- (Camera: Paula Fernández) More than 1.2 million students between the ages of six and eighteen return to class this week in Portugal, where the course presents a year more loaded with measures to face the coronavirus but with the hope that it will be easier than the previous ones.FOOTAGE OF A SCHOOL IN LISBON.SOUNDBITES OF RAQUEL, MOTHER OF A 9-YEAR-OLD BOY; SOFIA, MOTHER OF A 6-YEAR-OLD GIRL; JOAN, FATHER OF CHILDREN 6 AND 9 YEARS OLD.Translation:- Raquel, mother of a 9-year-old boy:"Sure. If there is no confinement I think it will be a normal year. You will only have to wear a mask, but I think there will be no interference due to the coronavirus, I think it will be easier than last year."On the mask: "It's good, it doesn't matter. It's a simple thing and you will avoid a lot of problems if everyone uses it."- Sofia, mother of a 6-year-old girl:"I think it will be a little easier but it will not be everything as before yet. There are many things that can happen, some variant that comes ... You never know."Mask: "Here in Portugal it is only compulsory from the age of 10. My daughter is 6 and still wears a mask because last year she was in the United States, the students always wore a mask during the school year and there was no interruption or no case in her class. And she managed to do the entire school year. Therefore I think that it should not only be highly recommended, as the DGS says but also mandatory for all children from 6 years of age "."He always wore it last year and he did not complain, all the students took it, it is just a matter of habit and that the parents do not say" poor children ". They get used to it."