School Closures In Response To COVID-19 Unnecessary, Harmful, UNICEF Says

U.N. News: Shutting school systems, wrong response to COVID-19, UNICEF says
“Countries fighting the coronavirus should not impose nationwide or large-scale school closures, which is the wrong response and compounds the societal cost of the disease, with 320 million children locked out of school at the start of December, the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF said on Tuesday…” (12/7).

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