Face-to face classes resume for Grade 7 students in Mozambique

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Face-to face classes resume for Grade 7 students in Mozambique

1:41 CAT | 02 Nov 2020

FILE - Grades 10 and 12 students had been allowed to return to school. [File photo: DW]

Face-to-face Grade 7 classes resume in Mozambique today after a seven-month suspension in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The return to school covers about 530,000 students enrolled in 8,000 schools, according to the Ministry of Education.

“We call on parents and guardians to take the students back to school. The country’s future depends on education,” ministry spokesman Feliciano Mahambe said on Friday.

Mahambe said that only schools with adequate health security would reopen, but without indicating how many educational establishments fulfilled this requirement.

The resumption of classes follows the principle of gradually easing the restrictions imposed in the context of preventing and combating the Covid-19 pandemic. Grade 7 is one of those that has end-of-year exams, in common with Grades 10 and 12, where face-to-face classes resumed in October.

The reopening of classes in non-exam grades is subject to the approval of the health and education authorities. Where conditions are not present, students will automatically progress to the next grade.

The Mozambican school year usually starts in February and ends in December, but will on this occasion be extended to February 26, 2021.

Mozambique has recorded a cumulative total of 13,130 cases of coronavirus infection, of which 10,439 have recovered and 94 died.

The Covid-19 pandemic has already caused nearly 1.2 million deaths and more than 46 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French AFP press agency.

In Africa, there have been 42,869 confirmed deaths among the more than 1.7 million people infected in 55 countries, according to the most recent statistics.

The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December, 2019, in Wuhan, a city in central China.

Source: Lusa