Millions of students in face masks streamed back to primary and secondary schools across the Philippines for their first in-person classes in two years
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Despite many concerns, education officials gave assurances that it’s “all-systems go” for Monday’s resumption of classes, he said. The Philippines was one of the Southeast Asian countries hit worst by the pandemic. Former President Rodrigo Duterte enforced one of the world’s longest. Before his six-year term ended June 30, Duterte continued to reject calls for a resumption of in-person classes due to fears it might ignite new outbreaks.
A World Bank study last year showed that about 9 out of 10 children in the Philippines were suffering from ““Prolonged school closures, poor health risk mitigation, and household-income shocks had the biggest impact on learning poverty, resulting in many children in the Philippines failing to read and understand a simple text by age 10,” UNICEF Philippines said in a statement.