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Cameroon Opens Schools Amid COVID-19 Spike

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   YAOUNDE - Schools and universities in Cameroon have opened Monday with
   hundreds of thousands going to class, despite the number of COVID-19
   infections continuing to increase. Cameroon so far has 6,380 confirmed
   cases of the virus with 273 deaths. But officials say the increasing
   number of recoveries from the virus and health measures taken at
   schools makes them confident that they can handle the pandemic.

   Speaking on Cameroon state media CRTV on Sunday, Cameroon prime
   minister Joseph Dion Ngute said president Paul Biya ordered schools
   that he closed last March 17 as part of measures to stop the spread of
   the coronavirus to reopen on June 1st because 3, 630 of the 6, 380
   COVID-19 patients in the central African state have recovered from the
   killer disease indicating that the strategy put in place by the
   government to protect its citizens from the coronavirus is yielding
   posotive results.

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