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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."

Face-to-face biometric registration of nearly 1.2 million Venezuelans begins in Colombia

Bogota, Sep 1 (EFE).- Colombia on Wednesday began the face-to-face biometric registration of the more than 1.2 million Venezuelans who have accepted the Special Protection Statute.The registration seeks to regulate the situation of the enormous exodus from the neighboring country that has arrived in recent years. (Camera: JUAN DIEGO LOPEZ). SHOT LIST: VENEZUELANS GO TO COLOMBIAN MIGRATION WORKERS TO CARRY OUT THEIR BIOMETRIC REGISTRATION, CONSISTING OF FINGERPRINTS, FACE PHOTOGRAPHY AND SIGNATURE, IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA.

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