79 Schools Closed Due to COVID-19

About 79 schools in Selangor have been instructed to close for two days after COVID-19 cases were reported.

Selangor Education Department confirmed the schools will be closed on Monday (April 26) and Tuesday (April 27).

This involves 18 schools in the Petaling Perdana district, 19 schools in the Hulu Langat district, nine schools in the Gombak district, nine schools in the Petaling Utama district, 15 schools in the Klang district, two schools in the Sepang district, five schools in the Hulu Selangor district and two schools in the Kuala Langat district.

This is in line with a report last Wednesday, where Deputy Education Minister Datuk Mah Hang Soon was quoted as saying schools will be closed for two days if a related Covid-19 case is detected.

As of April 21, there have been 53 active clusters from the education sector out of almost 90 COVID-19 clusters that have cropped up since Jan 1.

Meanwhile, Klang MP Charles Santiago has urged the education ministry to be more transparent, claiming that about 20 per cent of students are staying away from school.

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I have also been told that the toilets are not cleaned properly in schools.

“This could be one of the major sources where students contract COVID-19,” he was reported to have said in Free Malaysia Today (FMT).

Calls to close all schools nationwide grew after educational institutions recorded a total of 4,868 Covid-19 infections from Jan 1 to April 20 this year.