LONDON: The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has caused an “unprecedented education emergency” with up to 9.7 million children affected by school closures at risk of never going back to class, Save the Children warned Monday.

The British charity cited United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization data showing that in April, 1.6 billion young people were shut out of school and university due to measures to contain Covid-19 — about 90 percent of the world’s entire student population.

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