Nicaragua resumed classes this Wednesday with at least 90% attendance after the passage of Cyclone Julia, which hit the country with category 1 hurricane force on the Saffir-Simpson scale last Sunday.
Students from all state schools and private schools returned to their study centers after two days of suspension, due to the damage left by Julia, said the country’s vice president, Rosario Murillo, in a speech.
Classes had been suspended last Monday and Tuesday to avoid risks, according to the Ministry of Education, since different rivers and lakes in Nicaragua remained high, some of which caused flooding in towns in the center and southeast of the country.
The suspension of classes covered more than 1.7 million students and more than 10,000 schools throughout Nicaragua, a country that has been on red alert since Sunday afternoon.
At least 15 state schools suffered partial damage as a result of the impact of Julia, which after making landfall on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua crossed the country with the force of a tropical storm, until reaching the Pacific Ocean on Sunday afternoon.
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Classes were also suspended in different private higher education centers, as well as in those that are part of the National Council of Universities (CNU).
Julia left important damages in Nicaragua, such as flooded houses, homeless or other partial damage, floods, fallen trees, detached cables, obstructed highways, bridges overcome by the flows, suspended communications, among others.
At least four deaths were reported in the context of Julia by the Nicaraguan Army, local media, and witnesses on social networks, but the Government maintains that the phenomenon only caused material damage.
