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COVID-19 Has Forced 1.4 Billion Students To Stay Home (infographic)

According to UNESCO

Newsroom March 26 11:44

UNESCO has reported that close to 1.4 billion students are being kept out of schools and universities due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The following infographic shows the scale of the educational disruption with governments all over the world ordering learners to stay at home in a bid to slow the spread of the disease. As of March 23, 2020, 138 countries had ordered national school closures while may more had localised closures.

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