Sharjah schools to be 100% online until end of Spring semester

SHARJAH, 25th February, 2021 - The Local Emergency, Crisis and Disaster Management team in the Sharjah emirate has decided that 100 percent online distance learning will be continued for all public and private schools in Sharjah until the end of Spring Semester.

The Ministry of Education and the Sharjah Private Education Authority, in cooperation with the crisis team made the decision to continue the distance learning system to continue at 100 percent for students in schools, and children in public and private nurseries in Sharjah emirate, until the end of the spring semester 2021.

The local crisis team explained that the decision comes as a continuation of the wise leadership’s keenness to preserve the safety and health of students and the provision of appropriate alternatives for continuing learning remotely, to ensure comprehensive health security.

Meanwhile, the local team, through the Executive Committee for Emergency, Crisis and Disaster Management is running its multilingual awareness campaigns by drones to educate the community on the need to follow the preventive measures and procedures to limit the spread of the COVID-19. This method will help the campaign to reach the highest possible number of community members.

The committee called on members of society to follow preventive measures and adhere to wearing masks, to avoid mixing and gatherings, and to stay away from everything that exposes the community to the danger of the virus.

The committee also called on members of society to expedite receiving the vaccine through the allocated vaccination centres across the country, to cooperate in uniting efforts to limit the spread of the virus, and to adhere to the directives issued by the Ministry of Interior and the National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority (NCEMA), to follow all preventive and precautionary measures, to preserve public health.