The Philippines welcomes children back to classrooms for first time in nearly 2 years

The Philippines welcomes children back to classrooms for first time in nearly 2 years
# 15 November 2021 11:57 (UTC +04:00)

Classrooms across the Philippines are filling up with students again for the first time in nearly 2 years, APA reports citing The Guardian.

Children have been allowed back for face-to-face learning from Monday as the country begins its pilot implementation of limited in-person classes.

This makes the Philippines one of the the last countries in the world to return to in-person classes after Venezuela reopened schools in late October.

President Rodrigo Duterte initially approved 120 basic education schools for the dry run, with 20 private schools scheduled to begin their limited in-person classes on 22 November, local publication ABS-CBN reported.

Students are checked for their body temperature, required to fill out a health declaration form, proceed to hand washing stations and sit in chairs with installed plastic barriers inside classrooms. During recess time, students are given meals that they eat on their respective seats. They were not allowed to leave their seats unless they needed to go to the restroom.

In September, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF urged education authorities to reopen schools as soon as possible in countries where millions of students were still not allowed to return to classrooms 18 months into the Covid-19 pandemic.

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THE OPERATION IS BEING PERFORMED