A total of 9,696,756 Students in Ghana have been forced to stay at home for four weeks over the outbreak of deadly disease, coronavirus which has affected over 150 Countries Worldwide.
The Temporal closure affected students who were about to write the end of the Term and semester examination to break for Easter festivities.
Number of learners enrolled from pre-primary to upper-secondary education is over 9,253,063.
Governments in 100 countries have announced or implemented the closure of educational institutions in an attempt to slow the spread of the disease.
UNESCO is providing immediate support to countries as they work to minimize the educational disruption and facilitate the continuity of learning, especially for the most vulnerable.
According to UNESCO monitoring, 85 countries have closed schools nationwide, impacting over 776.7 million children and youth.
A further 15 countries have implemented localized school closures and, should these closures become nationwide, hundreds of millions of additional learners will experience education disruption.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
