Some 300,000 Grade 10 and adult schools’ third-year students in Mozambique resumed classes on Monday, following a seven-month interruption of classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, national radio RM reported.
Students will be divided into smaller streams and spend fewer hours at school, the RM said, quoting education ministry spokesperson Feliciano Mahalambe.
“The resumption of classes is stimulated by the fact that grade-12 students, who restarted classes earlier, are having classes in a safe environment with no infections of COVID-19 in the schools,” the spokesperson said. “More teachers have been hired to deal with the number of streams that were created in the new reality.”
“If a COVID-19 infection is detected, schools will be closed for disinfection,” Mahalambe said, urging parents to allow children to return to school.
He said only schools with all the sanitary measures in place would be allowed to resume class, and that the rehabilitation of sanitation and water facilities is underway in the remaining schools, to guarantee their reopening in the coming days.
