Kuwait: Tests for COVID-19 students kick off Sunday

Kuwait: Tests for COVID-19 students kick off Sunday

Cairo: Postponed examinations for students who caught COVID-19 in Kuwait are due to begin next Sunday, a week after schools reopened in the country, a local newspaper has said. Such students at the intermediate and secondary schools will sit for their exams on Sunday, Al Jarida added. Instructions have been made to schools to provide special classrooms amid health precautions to use them as exam boards for those students, it added. The Education Ministry is still studying the possibility of revival schools’ return to full capacity to replace the current system that divides students’ attendance over two groups, the paper said, citing sources at the ministry. “Officials have held several meetings in this regard,” the sources added, expecting a related decision next week. A rotating class system has been in force in Kuwait since last October as part of precautions to curtail the spread of COVID-19. On Sunday, thousands of students returned to classes in Kuwait for their second semester after the end of the mid-year holiday. Unvaccinated teachers and students above age of 16 are still required to show a negative coronavirus-detecting PCR test result to be allowed in. The second semester in Kuwait was originally scheduled to kick