Monday, 25 Jan 2021
Bangla Version
Monday, 25 Jan 2021
Bangla Version
Health Desk- 13 Jan 2021: UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on Tuesday said, ‘As we enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and as cases continue to soar around the world, no effort should be spared to keep schools open or prioritize them in reopening plans’.
Despite overwhelming evidence of the impact of school closures on children, and despite increasing evidence that schools are not drivers of the pandemic, too many countries have opted to keep schools closed, some for nearly a year, he added.
Henrietta Fore also said, ‘The cost of closing schools – which at the peak of pandemic lockdowns affected 90 per cent of students worldwide and left more than a third of schoolchildren with no access to remote education – has been devastating’.
The number of out-of-school children is set to increase by 24 million, to a level we have not seen in years and have fought so hard to overcome, Executive Director added.
A nurse to get the first jab Wednesday
UK to quarantine visitors from nations with high COVID-19 risk
Real Madrid coach Zidane tests positive for coronavirus
Pfizer to provide 40m Covax to poor countries without profit
UN assists India's mammoth COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Global Covid cases top 97.4 million
US COVID-19 deaths exceed WWII military toll
20 lakh doses Indian gift of Oxford Covid vaccine arrives
Global Covid cases top 96 million
India to start vaccine exports from Wednesday
