A teacher screens students as schools begin to reopen after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown in Langa township in Cape Town, South Africa June 8, 2020. REUTERS/Mike HutchingsAfricaRamped-up efforts to equip Schools over the past week meant that 95% of South Africa’s primary and secondary schools were now able to host classes. South Africa, the continent’s most industrialised nation, has recorded nearly 50,000 cases of the new coronavirus - the most of any African country - along with almost 1,000 deaths. As children trickled through the gates of one primary school in Soweto, a township outside Johannesburg, their temperatures were taken at a makeshift health check-point. SEE ALSO: Farm inputs tax will ruin agriculture, experts sayStudents lining up to enter school in South Africa.

Source: Standard Digital June 08, 2020 16:11 UTC