Schools resumption has been postponed in senegal until further notice. This was after several teachers wree tested positive for the Covid 19, said the education minstry on Monday.
After weeks of lockdown due to the pandemic schools were scheduled to resume gradually on Tuesday. SwnegaS has a record of 3,739 positive Corona cases since the srart of the outbreak, with 43 deaths.
An education ministry statement said teachers tested positive for coronavirus in Ziguinchor, in the Casamance area, south of the country.
It said Senegal’s President Macky Sall decided to “postpone the restart of classes until a later date, in order to avoid any risk of the virus spreading in schools.”
The government began bussing teachers from the capital Dakar to schools in the other regions last week in preparation for schools to reopen. The ministry said in a separate statement that the bussing has been suspended until further notice.
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