Getting students back into schools as safely as possible must be a top priority, he says. FMTNews School Covid19 UN WHO
Teaching assistant takes a kindergarten student’s temperature at an elementary school in Mississippi yesterday.
Guterres said that as of mid-July schools were closed in some 160 countries, affecting more than 1 billion students, while at least 40 million children have missed out on pre-school. “Now we face a generational catastrophe that could waste untold human potential, undermine decades of progress, and exacerbate entrenched inequalities,” said Guterres as he launched a UN “Save our Future” campaign.
The UN recommendations for getting global education back on track come as US President Donald Trump pushes for schools to reopen in the face of opposition from some teachers and parents while Covid-19 is surging in many parts of the country.
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