Schools in greater Male’ region would be close for next week as an efforts to control spread of COVID-19.

Ministry of Education made the announcement via Twitter on Wednesday the decision to keep schools in Male’ city closed as a per the counsel from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) and other relevant institutions.

As such all the schools in Male’ city will remain close until 23 August 2020 till 3 September according to the ministry. The ministry has also stated that the following would be also reconsidered after reviewing the countries situation after this period.

Schools has been close since March due to COVID-19 pandemic but reopened schools COVID-19 free islands and certain