COVID-19 Palava: Schools In Kenya To Refund 2020 School Fees As Schools Remain Closed Till 2021
– COVID-19 Palava: Schools In Kenya To Refund 2020 School Fees
– Schools Remain Closed Till 2021
– Declare 2020 Academic Calendar Null And Void
The Government of Kenya have said that schools in the country are to refund the school fees to all parents and guardians for the 2020 academic session due to the corona virus pandemic that has ravaged the country and the world at large. This was made known by the Minister of Education in Kenya, George Magoha.
The minister in the statement announced that primary and secondary schools would remain closed until 2021 as the Coronavirus cases in the country keeps rising daily.
The table below shows the number of corona virus cases in Kenya, recoveries and deaths as at July 8 2020.
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8,525
|
2,593
|
169
|
The Kenya Education Minister,stated that schools are to either to refund this year’s school fees or put it to next year’s academic session. This will basically act as spill over from this years academic calendar which many countries around the world are planning on cancelling, including Nigeria that have announced the cancellation of its West African Examination Councils Exam, WAEC, which holds yearly.
The Education Minister also stated that that academic calendar for the year 2020 has been declared null due to the pandemic, and all the students are to repeat a year as schools had closed in March, just three months after the school calendar had begun.
So far, the corona virus has affected over 11 million people around the world.
Table Below;
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Confirmed
11.8M
+173K
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Recovered
6.42M
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Deaths
544K
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Most affected countries include;
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3.08M
+50,940
|
923K
|
134K
+902
|
|
1.68M
+45,305
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1.12M
|
67,113
+1,254
|
|
742K
+22,752
|
457K
|
20,642
+482
|
|
701K
+6,562
|
473K
|
10,667
+173
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