Remote learning setting back South Asian kids - UNICEF

NEW DELHI— Hundreds of millions of children in South Asia are suffering because their schools have been closed due to the coronavirus but they lack online devices and connections for remote learning, UNICEF said on Thursday.

"School closures in South Asia have forced hundreds of millions of children and their teachers to transition to remote learning in a region with low connectivity and device affordability," said George Laryea-Adjei, UNICEF's regional director for South Asia. The repeated school closures since last year had affected 434 million children in South Asia and a substantial proportion of them were learning significantly less compared with pre-pandemic levels, UNICEF said in a report based on research in India, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

In Pakistan, 23% of younger children did not have access to any device for remote learning. In India, 42% of children between the ages 6 and 13 reported no remote learning during school closures.

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