Overview
- Education officials said distance learning will continue until April 17 for students and staff across all nurseries, kindergartens, and public and private schools, with the notice posted on the ministry’s X account.
- The ministry said it will reassess the situation every week to decide when in-person classes can safely resume.
- Officials tied the extension to continuing missile and drone attacks attributed to Iran, with UAE air defences reporting engagements with 425 ballistic missiles, 15 cruise missiles, and 1,941 drones since the strikes began in March.
- Authorities reported deaths that include two military personnel and a Moroccan civilian contractor, plus eight other civilian fatalities of Pakistani, Nepali, Bangladeshi, Palestinian, and Indian nationalities, and 178 injured from a wide range of countries.
- The government first moved all higher education and schools online at the start of March and began the spring holiday on March 9, so students and staff have already been learning and working remotely throughout the month.