South Africa: Schools to stay closed amid surge in coronavirus cases

The reopening of South African schools for the new academic year has been postponed by two weeks in the wake of rising new covid-19 variant cases.  “All stakeholders were united in supporting a delay in the opening of schools. Given the pressure experienced by the health system in the past weeks due to covid-19, the council of education, ministers in conjunction with NCCC and cabinet has taken a decision to delay the reopening of both public and private schools by two weeks, Deputy Minister of Basic Education, Reginah Mhaule said.