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COVID-19 school health and safety protocols: good practices and lessons learnt to respond to Omicron
The COVID19 pandemic and the recent Omicron variant wave have dramatically impacted societies in all sectors and at all levels After near universal school closures in March 2020 that affected 16 billion learners and more than 100 million teachers and educators worldwide countries around the world have developed health and safety protocols in an effort to safely keep schools open and protect students teachers and other educational staff from the transmission of COVID19 However since the emergence of the Omicronvariant in December 2021 these protocols have been disrupted and are being reevaluated as schools struggleto address a new set ofchallenges marked by staff shortages threats to school safety and political battles over health measures