Schools shut for 2 days due to adverse weather forecast
By JT - Feb 16,2021 - Last updated at Feb 16,2021
AMMAN Education Minister Tayseer Nuaimi on Tuesday decided to suspend schools across the Kingdom on Wednesday and Thursday due to expected inclement weather conditions. Nuaimi also ordered schools to shift to online education, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
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“The epidemic situation is changing worldwide and it is not time yet to relax our guard,” the minister said.
Almost 774,000 students went back to school in Jordan on Sunday, in the first return to classrooms since a nationwide shutdown imposed at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.
The in-class learning on Sunday saw attendance by 773,812 kindergarten, first graders and general secondary (Tawjihi) students from public and private schools and those run by UNRWA. This is to be followed by second graders the following day and third graders on Feb. 9, as per the safe return to school guidebook prepared by the education and health ministries.