The Malawian government announced the closure of all schools on March 20, even before a single coronavirus case had been reported in the landlocked country.
He pointed out that before the pandemic struck, Malawi already had one of the highest rates of child marriages in the world.“Ever since schools closed to help combat the spread of COVID-19, remote areas have reported an increase in child marriages,” he said. In an interview with local radio station Capital Radio, the district education officer for the southern town of Nsanje, Gleston Alindiamawo, said Monday that over 300 girls in the district were nursing unwanted pregnancies since schools closed.
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