SPIRALLING COVID-19 CASES THWARTS MALAWI UNIVERSITIES RE-OPENING
June 2nd, 2020
Malawi’s higher education sector will not be open for business as usual this week (from July 13), despite earlier government recommendations that the country’s Covid-19 lockdown (in place since March 23) be lifted. This is because the country is facing spiralling infection rate and death rates from the coronavirus. By June 30, the country had registered 1,224 cases with 14 deaths and 260 recoveries, and by this Tuesday (July 7) there were 1,942 infections, including 25 deaths.
This pandemic wave is thwarting the plans of reopening of Malawi’s colleges ...
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