All schools in Kenya are to remain closed till 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the east African country.
Kenya’s Education Minister, George Magoha said students would repeat a year as schools had closed in mid-March, three months after the school calendar had begun, the BBC reports.
“The 2020 school calendar year will be considered lost due to COVID-19 restrictions,” he said.
The decision would apply to public and private schools.
Kenya has more than 8,000 confirmed cases of Coronavirus with at least 164 deaths.
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday announced a phased reopening of the country, including the lifting of travel restrictions in the main cities of Nairobi and Mombasa.
