UNICEF: Latin America's children face major education setbacks from COVID

By ITS Education Asia

A very worrying article from Reuters reporting on a recent UNICEF report on how children from Latin America have been hit much harder by the pandemic than may other places in the world.

Latin American children have lost four times more days of education from the coronavirus pandemic than students in the rest of the world, a UNICEF report on Monday showed, with over 137 million young people in the region still not back at school.

Latin America has been hard hit by COVID-19, with more than 11.6 million cases and over 400,000 deaths, according to a Reuters tally. The United Nations children's agency found that the region's children had been disproportionately affected by the pandemic.

"While? schools are gradually reopening in several parts of the world,? the vast majority of? classrooms? are still ?closed across the region," it said.

"Over one-third of all countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have yet to? set? a date for school reopening."

 

 

 

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