Schools should remain open - PTA

Saturday, May 29, 2021

FRANCISTOWN: The national Parents, Teacher Association (PTA) chairperson Edward Moganana has maintained that schools should remain open despite the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

This comes after a press release from the Alliance for Progressives Youth League (APYL) president Gaone Majere calling for the immediate closure of schools.

According to Majere as noted in the press release the government ‘s decision to open schools was a bad idea as mounting evidence suggests that this would contribute to a second wave of infections and deaths from COVID-19

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