A High School student at the Lycee Blaise Diagne washes her hands as she arrives for her first day back at school in Dakar on June 25, 2020. JOHN WESSELS / AFPHalf a million Senegalese schoolchildren returned to class on Thursday, under instructions to wear face masks and keep a distance from each other, after three months of absence.
It initially intended to open them again on June 5, but delayed the decision at the last minute after several teachers were found to have caught the virus. “We have reduced the number of pupils in the classes, some of which have fewer than 20 ,” said Abdoul Diop, a headmaster in the capital Dakar, where class sizes are often large.
But as with other poor countries in the region, there are concerns about the government’s ability to handle a large outbreak.
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