(See related story on COVID-19 restrictions) Close to eight in 10 of Italy's school children are now back in class as of Monday, with only four regions classed as high-COVID-risk red zones.
As a result around 6.6 million pupils out of the nation's school population of 8.5 million are physically back in class.
In the four red-zone regions all high-school students and pupils in the second and third years of middle school have to do distance learning.
The rest of the nation is a medium-high-risk orange zone, where all middle school students are in class and high-school students are 50-75% in school and the rest of the time on distance learning.
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