Daily updates on the pandemic by the Health ministry showing a frightening upsurge in infections and deaths notwithstanding, there is mounting pressure on the government to reopen schools. Our boarding and day public schools are teeming with students. If public gatherings, places of worship included, are discouraged in strict adherence to the social distancing rule, then it beats logic why we should reopen schools. Nobody should reopen schools for the sake of being seen to be working. Rushing to reopen schools during the pandemic could have sand crush our teeth.

Source: Daily Nation May 21, 2020 20:03 UTC