43% of schools around the world cannot wash their hands and are essential to prevent new coronas

43% of schools around the world cannot wash their hands and are essential for the prevention of new coronas August 13 at 9:08

UNICEF = United Nations Children's Fund and WHO = World Health Organization released a report that 43% of schools around the world do not have an environment for handwashing, which is essential for the prevention of new coronavirus infections. We are calling for the maintenance of facilities necessary for hand washing in preparation for the resumption.

According to a report released by UNICEF and WHO on the 13th, as of last year, 43% of the world's schools lacked the basic environment to wash their hands with soap.

As a result, 818 million children are exposed to the risk of being infected with the new coronavirus, and it is said that more than one-third of them, 295 million, are children in sub-Saharan Africa. I will.

According to UNESCO = United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 106 countries and regions have been closed all over the country as of the 2nd of this month, affecting more than 1 billion students or 60.5% of the world's students. I am.

UNICEF Executive Director Fore said, "We must ensure that there is a place to wash hands and clean drinking water so that the school can be safely restarted." We are calling for strengthening.