Uganda’s Ministry of Education and Sports has dismissed reports schools are being re-opened. It says no decision has been taken yet on resumption dates.
On Monday, Alex Kakooza, the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Education and Sports, tweeted that only candidate classes and finalists in institutions of higher learning were open.
He said the rest will wait until the government reaches a decision on when to re-open.
“Contrary to media reports, government has not yet agreed upon the re-opening of schools and higher institutions of learning for non-candidate classes,’’ Kakooza said.
In October 2020 , Uganda re-opened candidate classes, seven months after the government closed all schools, colleges and universities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As at Saturday, the country had a cumulative total of 39,149 COVID-19 cases, 13,861 recoveries and 317 deaths.
Uganda reported its first COVID-19 case on March 21, 2020.