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Coronavirus: Senegal postpones back to school

2020-06-03T11:23:06.158Z


The Senegalese authorities announced a few hours before the deadline postponement of the resumption of lessons in schools scheduled for Tuesday morning for hundreds of thousands of students. Classes have been suspended since March due to the coronavirus pandemic. Read also: LIVE - Deconfinement: end of the 100-kilometer limit, reopening of restaurants ... A Tuesday with a taste for newfound freed...


The Senegalese authorities announced a few hours before the deadline postponement of the resumption of lessons in schools scheduled for Tuesday morning for hundreds of thousands of students. Classes have been suspended since March due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Read also: LIVE - Deconfinement: end of the 100-kilometer limit, reopening of restaurants ... A Tuesday with a taste for newfound freedom

The recovery is postponed until "a later date , " said the Ministry of National Education in a statement issued in the middle of the night, without specifying a new date. The ministry invokes the discovery of the contamination of teachers in Casamance (south).

Read also: Senegal extends state of emergency against coronavirus until end of June

The recovery concerned the pupils of the so-called examination classes (CM2, third, terminal). Many voices of teachers, parents, students, were raised at the approach of recovery before the conditions in which it was announced and the health risks it posed in this poor country. They criticized the means made available to establishments and the impossibility of enforcing preventive measures.

Read also: UK schools reopen under fire from critics

Catholic schools in Dakar announced Monday that they would reopen, but without the students. They said they were "not ready to receive students" and refused to "put the lives of students, staff and their families at risk" .

Catholics represent around 5% of the overwhelmingly Muslim population. Senegal officially declared more than 3,700 cases of contamination and 43 deaths.

Read also: Mass screening at the military school of Saint-Maixent: 1,900 tests, 30 positive cases

Source: lefigaro

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