There are 200 Eastern Cape schools that remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, premier Oscar Mabuyane said in Bhisho on Tuesday morning.
Nearly 300 schools in the Eastern Cape have been affected by Covid-19, premier Oscar Mabuyane said on Tuesday. File imageThere are 200 Eastern Cape schools that remain closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, premier Oscar Mabuyane said in Bhisho on Tuesday morning.He said 24 health workers from the province have died from the virus, while 838 health workers have tested positive.Education MEC Fundile Gade said 15 people from his department have succumbed to Covid-19 related illnesses.
With infections rising in schools across the province, Gade said: “There is a need of a discussion at a national level to reconsider the phasing in of other grades that were scheduled to be back on July 6 - for strategic reasons.”
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