Iraqi students back to school with one-month of COVID-19 delay

Over 11 million students are back to schools for the new school year 2021-22.

Attending the opening ceremony at a school in the capital Baghdad, Falah Al-Qaisi, Deputy Minister of Education, said:

"We have had many difficulties in education for the past two years, but we tried to overcome it with distance learning and partial face-to-face education."

This year, students across the country will have classes four days a week under pandemic measures, Al-Qaisi noted.

Since August, the country has registered a rise in the number of virus infections.

In Iraq, from Jan. 3, 2020 to Oct. 29, 2021, there have been over 2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 23.083 deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Over 8.9 million vaccine doses have been administered so far.