Italy reopens schools in 13 regions

Schools will be opened on 24 September in the other regions, according to Education Ministry.

"On Monday we go back to school in much of Italy. I greet all of you, girls and boys, teachers, managers, school staff, parents. It will be a moment of intense emotion. So, at least, it was for me every first day of school,” Prime Ministry Giuseppe Conte said in a message for the start of the school.

“It is an emotion that I too will experience, as the head of a government that in recent months has worked for a safe return to class, but also as the father of a son who is also about to return to school,” Conte added.

More than 7,507,400 pupils will get their education in state institutions. (ILKHA)