closures

Overview: Asbestos contamination in children's play sand forces school checks Authorities in New Zealand and Australia are investigating decorative play sand found to contain asbestos, prompting dozens of school and daycare closures as officials trace affected batches. The disruption has focused attention on imported classroom materials and the potential health risk to children and staff. Forty schools and daycare centres in New Zealand closed temporarily while decorative sand was located and removed. More than 70 schools…

"State of emergency" for ten days, "well being warning" for six months. A Council of Ministers was held on Friday, December 18, in Mali to debate the scenario thought of worrying in regards to the Covid-19 epidemic. Comparatively spared, with 6,049 formally registered circumstances and 211 deaths because the starting of the disaster, the nation is experiencing an upswing in contamination. With greater…

A few weeks before the presidential election on 18 October 2020, Guinea will close its borders with Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. In Bissau, the decision seems curious and also surprises thousands of Guinean voters located in their country and living in Guinea-Bissau. All fear of being excluded from the process. as reported from Bissau, Although it is often common for land and air borders to be closed with the advent of major electoral competitions, this border closure concerns only two of the six countries surrounding…