As schools battle to accommodate the different grades by offering classes to different grades in the mornings and afternoons, or on alternate days or alternate weeks, to comply with social distancing protocols, it emerged that 20,657 teachers were granted a concession to work from home because they were aged at least 60 or had comorbidities.
Limpopo confirmed that it had found no substitute teachers, while the Western Cape said that it had received 860 nominations to date for teacher assistants. At least 40 non-teaching staff and four pupils also died during this period after contracting the virus.
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