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The purpose of this study is to examine, whether there have been changes in the forms or quantity of bullying before the corona pandemic (covid-19) compared to the duration of the pandemic. Traditionally, there has been various definitions for bullying, the latest of which is that there is a power imbalance between the bully and the person being bullied, which causes discomfort to the victim. Starting from late 2019, Coronavirus caused the covid-19 pandemic. Pandemic is an intercontinental epidemic that poses significant threat to public health. Due to the pandemic schools were closed from March 2020 until late May, during which teaching was done remotely online. By autumn of 2020 in-person teaching mostly resumed, with some special arrangements. The method chosen for this study is qualitative interview survey. Five teachers and one special needs teacher were interviewed. Five of the interviewees worked in the capital region and one in Varsinais-Suomi. All the interviewees had long experience working as a teacher. The interviews were conducted orally individually. The result of the study is that there haven’t been noticeable changes in the quantity of bullying, but the forms of bullying have transformed. This is partly because during remote online teaching there wasn’t any face-to-face interaction between pupils, and bullying was done mainly in virtual environments through the Internet, for example in games and WhatsApp. The same phenomenon has persisted after resuming in-person teaching.