Sri Lanka on Monday reopened government-owned public and state-approved private schools, which were closed for nearly a month due to fuel shortages. However, schools will be open only three days a week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, and students will be taught online on the other two days of the school week. The Ministry of Education also extended the first school term until September 7. Also read: Sri Lanka: The state strikes back Schools will also not conduct examinations at the end of the first term, and principals have been instructed to conduct alternative forms of evaluation. Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed officials to provide fuel to school buses from all state-run fuel depots. There are close to 40,000 vehicles that are engaged in transporting students to schools in Sri Lanka.  Also read: Group seeks ex-Sri Lankan president's arrest in Singapore

The government has again extended the closure of secondary and higher secondary level educational institutions until May 29 due to the recent spike in Covid-19 infections. The decision was taken considering the safety of students, teachers and staffers after consultation with the National Advisory Committee on Covid-19, said an official release signed by M A Khair, public relations officer of the Education Ministry. During the closure online classes will continue, it said. Earlier, the government decided to reopen schools and colleges on May 23 and the Education Ministry issued a notice in this regard. Also read: Covid-19: Ongoing lockdown to be extended until May 23 The government shut educational institutions on March 17 last year after the country reported its first Covid-19 cases on March 8. The closure was extended several times, most recently until May 23 this year. On February 22 the education minister announced that university classes would resume on May 24. Residential halls were scheduled to be reopened on May 17. Also read: Schools, colleges to reopen on May 23 Covid-19 situation in Bangladesh Covid-19 claimed 22 more lives in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours until Saturday morning which is the lowest daily deaths in nearly two months. The country saw 26 Covid deaths on Friday and 31 on Thursday. With the latest deaths logged today, the official Covid-related death count in the country reached 12,124. However, the mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.55%, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Also read: Covid-19: 22 more lives lost, lowest daily deaths in 7 weeks The country witnessed a sharp drop in the number of new cases as the tests have declined dramatically. Only 261 infections were logged in the last 24 hours after examining 3,758 samples during the period. The number of daily cases has been decreasing since the beginning of May, falling below 2,000.

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The morning bell Monday marked the first entrance to the classroom for the children of Codogno since Feb. 21, when panicked parents were sent to pick up their children after the northern Italian town gained notoriety as the first in the West to record local transmission of the coronavirus.

Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam on Monday said time has not come yet to reopen the educational institutions of the country.