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Philippines students face distance learning until COVID-19 vaccine found

Published 06/09/2020, 07:01 PM
Updated 06/09/2020, 07:10 PM

MANILA, June 9 (Reuters) - With schools in the Philippines
only due to reopen when a vaccine for COVID-19 has been found,
educational authorities are racing to devise a distance learning
regime for 27 million children by August, when the summer
holidays end.
That poses a huge challenge in a archipelago nation of 107
million, where many households have no access to the internet or
a computer, and teachers fear they will not be ready to roll out
remote learning in two months.
Duterte last month said resuming face-to-face classes
without a vaccine for COVID-19 "spells disaster".
Elsewhere in the world, schools are starting to reopen for
students with social distancing regimes to keep infection rates
down, and amid fears about children missing out on weeks of
their education.
However, Duterte's education secretary, Leonor Briones, is
confident alternative approaches can work until a vaccine is
developed.
"The president cares about our students, he told us to find
other ways (to teach) besides students going back to school,"
Briones said in an online media briefing.
She said the department was laying the groundwork for a
different kind of learning using technology including radio,
television, online classes and modular learning.
More than 1,000 people in the Philippines have died due to
COVID-19 and nearly 23,000 have been infected. Briones, 79, has
herself recovered from COVID-19.
There are more than 100 potential vaccines being developed
globally, but most estimate it would be at least a year before
any are ready for deployment.

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