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Kenyan schools to reopen in January

Kenyan schools reopen.

Grade Four pupils at Moi Avenue Primary School in Kenya's capital Nairobi on October 21, 2020. The Kenyan government had ordered phased reopening of schools in October and has now announced that in-person learning in all schools will resume in January 2021. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE | NMG

By  Anthony Kitimo

Correspondent based in Mombasa, Kenya

Nation Media Group

Kenya has officially set January 4, 2021 as a tentative date for in person learning of all schools.

Schools were closed indefinitely in March this year due to Covid-19, three months after the school calendar had begun.

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