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SANCHEZ: An update now on the breaking news out of Georgia. You might remember this viral photo showing students packed into a hallway at North Paulding High School with very few masks visible. Tonight, we learned that the school is actually shutting down for the next two days to disinfect after nine people tested positive for COVID-19. And just in to CNN. A middle school student in that same district testing positive for coronavirus. Natasha Chen has more.</s>NATASHA CHEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right. We just got a copy of this letter from the superintendent of Paulding County public schools who says that they are going to have to have kids at home Monday and Tuesday doing virtual learning to disinfect the school, to give the district time to consult with the Public Health Department on how they are going to proceed after this. This letter comes one day after the principal told families of that high school that at least six students and three staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. And this letter tonight from the superintendent acknowledges that there could be more people who are still awaiting test results. And so, when you think about at least nine people knowing they are positive with maybe more people waiting to see if they are, this was the move that they thought would be safest. Now they are also saying that by Tuesday evening, they should be able to tell families how they are going to continue classes in the days after that. Whether the virtual learning continues or if they go back to the school building. Now keep in mind, the school district had already determined that for the first week of class, they were going to have students in the building for three days and at home virtual learning for two days. Now that of course has been extended an additional two days into Monday and Tuesday.</s>SANCHEZ: Thank you, Natasha Chen for that. It's not just the United States dealing with this issue. Around the world, parents and government leaders are weighing options when it comes to sending children back to school. The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is urging that children return to the classroom. He says, quote, "economically unable and morally indefensible." Here's how other countries are looking to reopen their schools.</s>FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I'm Fred Pleitgen in Berlin as Germany continues to reopen schools and bring children back into classrooms. Now, all German states have opted for in-classroom learning, but of course all of this is happening under special pandemic measures. Most German states are making masks mandatory for both students and staff when they enter school buildings. And all of this is happening as Germany is dealing with a new spike in coronavirus infections. The country recording more than a thousand new infections on two subsequent days this past week.</s>DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm David McKenzie in Johannesburg. Here in South Africa, they have closed schools for at least a month to try and curb COVID transmission. In Kenya, they took an even more drastic step. They've shut down the entire school year of 2020. They said this was to stop COVID-19, but also because they saw during the lockdown that online learning was impossible for many of the poorest students. Despite charities and teachers doing what they could, it was just not fair. So, they took that drastic step. All of the students, millions of them, the entire school year is over. They will have to do it all again next year.</s>ELLIOT GOTKINE, JOURNALIST: I'm Elliot Gotkine in Jerusalem, outside one of the country's most famous schools. Back in May when the education system was reopened here, Israel had managed to push the number of daily COVID cases down to single digits. Schools were reopened across the country and then began Israel's second wave. In fact, when on a per million population basis the country now has one of the worst outbreaks in the world. Disease experts say that the reopening of the school system was largely to blame.