How to keep schools open and save the academic calendar

Muthurwa Primary School Head Teacher Jane Njoroge (right) and her pupils receives Face Masks from Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) Director of Health Services Josephine Kibaru Mbae (2nd right) and Parklands MCA Jayendra Malde during NMS COVID-19 Sensitisation programme in schools in Nairobi on Wednesday January 6, 2021 [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Schools are staring at another crisis of prolonged closures if the new Covid-19 containment measures are not fully enforced.

With fluctuating positivity rates, increasing community infections and carelessness among Kenyans, parents, and teachers unions are concerned schools may not open on May 10 as scheduled.