Deputy Education Minister Lim Hui Ying says that state education departments will monitor and close schools should the temperature exceed 37 degrees Celsius over three consecutive days.
KUALA LUMPUR: There have been no school closures in Malaysia due to the sustained hot weather, the country’s Deputy Education Minister Lim Hui Ying said on Wednesday .
She also said that school administrators are to take precautionary measures and monitor the daily weather conditions. If the temperature reaches over 37 degrees Celsius for three consecutive days and a heatwave is declared by the Malaysian Meteorological Department , schools will be ordered to shut.
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