After The Shutdown: 774,000 Students Go Back to School in Jordan Published February 8th, 2021 - 07:57 GMT (Shutterstock)
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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.
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