And that doesn't include college students. Here are the latest statistics in the United States and globally on students affected by school closures.
The number of K-12 students in the United States whose schools have closed or are scheduled to be because of the spread of the novelAround the world, the number of students whose education has been interrupted by the virus has soared to nearly 377 million students, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO.
The World Health Organization says that the number of confirmed cases of covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, has surpassed 126,000 people, and that more than 4,600 have died. The death toll in the United States had reached 38 by early Thursday, with more than 1,3000 cases diagnosed and experts warning that they expect the crisis to worsen in the next few weeks.As of Thursday, UNESCO reported, 26 countries have shuttered schools and universities, impacting almost 376.
An additional 20 countries have had localized school closures to prevent or contain the spread of the virus, UNESCO said, and if they all went to nationwide closures, more than 500 million more students would be affected. The United States has seen a rapid rise in the number of students affected by school closures as a result of the spread of the coronavirus, according to a tally being kept byOn Wednesday, the number of K-12 students affected by schools that have closed or were scheduled to do so was slightly more than 1 million. By Thursday, it had risen to 1,309,426 students.
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