After the winter holidays, school and kindergarten attendance in Latvia significantly increased, which is related to the decrease in the spread of acute respiratory diseases, according to data from the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), reports LETA.
In the week before the holidays, 86.3% of schoolchildren attended general education institutions, while 63.9% of children attended preschool institutions.
After the holidays, school attendance rose to 90.5%. The lowest attendance was recorded in Jelgava, which also registered the highest level of flu incidence — 84.2% of students were present in schools.
There was also a significant increase in attendance at kindergartens — it reached 79%, which is 15.1 percentage points higher than in the week before the holidays. In most municipalities participating in the monitoring, this figure ranges from 77% to 80%, while in Liepaja it was 84.6%, which is 13.9 percentage points higher than before the holidays.
A total of 62 general education and preschool institutions in Daugavpils, Gulbene Municipality, Jelgava, Jekabpils Municipality, Jurmala, Liepaja, Rezekne, Riga, Valmiera Municipality, and Ventspils were included in the monitoring.
Educational institutions report attendance data weekly based on Thursday's figures.
As previously reported, the incidence of flu and other upper respiratory infections continued to decline last week; however, it remains at a high level, according to data from the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC).
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