“This move is intended to decongest and lessen the heat,” he said in an interview on May 17.
For several days now, Eastern Visayas has been experiencing extreme heat ranging from 34 degrees Celsius up to 46 degrees Celsius. In Western Visayas, 2,179 public schools or 53.82 % of the total number of educational facilities in the region have implemented distance learning as of May 11, according to DepEd.
In Central Visayas, DepEd gave school administrators the discretion to suspend classes during extremely hot weather.
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