‘Only four reasons for online education’

AMMAN — Ministry of Education Spokesman Ahmed Al-Masafah said on Monday that online education will be carried out in four cases: if a student or teacher is infected; if the rate of infection in one classroom reaches 10 percent; if the rate of infection in the entire school reaches 10 percent; and for immunocompromised students who may be educated remotely through their guardian, according to Al-Mamlaka TV.اضافة اعلان

If the rate of infection in a class or a school reaches 10 percent, education will be done remotely for five days only, Masafah said, adding that an infected student or teacher will have to quarantine and will not be allowed to return to school except after presenting a negative PCR test.

According to Masafah, 189,928 students aged 12 and above received the vaccine, which constitutes 20 percent of all the student body, and 313 students received the third dose.


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