Pandemic causing 'nearly insurmountable' education losses globally: UNICEF

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School closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic have caused \u0022nearly insurmountable\u0022 losses in education among children around the world, UNICEF said on Monday (Jan 24). More than 616 million students are still being affected by full or partial school closures, the United Nations children\u0027s agency said.

School closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic have caused"nearly insurmountable" losses in education among children around the world, UNICEF said on Monday .

In many countries, in addition to depriving millions of children of the chance to acquire basic skills, these disruptions have affected students' mental health, put them at greater risk of abuse and prevented many from having access to"a regular source of nutrition", UNICEF added. And"just reopening schools is not enough", he added, calling for"intensive support to recover lost education".

In Ethiopia, for example, children learned only"between 30 to 40 per cent of the math they would have learned if it had been a normal school year" in primary school, the UN agency estimated.

 

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