School environments were viewed as potential super-spreaders, considering the amount of interaction among learners and teachers, and the frequent use of surfaces such as desks, boards and chairs. Learners also use communal toilets and taps for drinking water, hence it was feared that schools were dangerous places for the transmission of the virus.
The strategies focused on remote and mostly digital learning activities, including online learning, encouragement to read textbooks and listening to educational television and radio programmes. According to the World Bank, the uptake of these programmes varied widely, with nine in 10 children engaged in learning activities in
Burkina Faso, and six in 10 in
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Life before Covid-19. This photograph was taken at a government school in Harare in February 2019. Image: Philimon Bulawayo, Reuters
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Bail appeal for teacher jailed 16 months
January 2, 2021 in Local, News
MASVINGO Human rights lawyers have filed a High Court bail appeal for a widowed primary school teacher sentenced to 16 months imprisonment after she was arrested for public violence during a “peaceful” protest for better pay.
Sheila Chisirimunhu, a gender and welfare secretary for the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ), began her jail time last week amid outrage from trade union movements and human rights campaigners.
“We are investing our energies in doing all we can to have ARTUZ leader Sheila Chirisamhuru released from prison,” said attorneys from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR).