UNITED NATIONS –The Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Henrietta Fore, on Friday said that despite the rise of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, “nationwide school closures should be avoided whenever possible”. “When COVID-19 community transmission increases and stringent public health measures become a necessity, schools must be the last places to close and the first to re-open,” she said. Caribbean countries are …
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Despite the rise in the cases of COVID-19 due to the highly transmissible Omicron variant, nationwide school closures should be avoided whenever possible, said Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of the UN Children s Fund (UNICEF)
UNITED NATIONS - School closings because of the COVID-19 variant Omicron should be the last mitigant measure authorities take, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) chief Henrietta Fore said on Friday.