• A teacher reads to a pre-school class of children who are wearing masks and with desks spaced apart as per coronavirus guidelines during the summer school session in Monterey Park, California, on July 9. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday that the world faces a 'catastrophe' due to school closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. | AFP-JIJI
    A teacher reads to a pre-school class of children who are wearing masks and with desks spaced apart as per coronavirus guidelines during the summer school session in Monterey Park, California, on July 9. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday that the world faces a "catastrophe" due to school closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. | AFP-JIJI

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UNITED NATIONS – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday that the world faces a “generational catastrophe” because of school closures amid the coronavirus pandemic and said that getting students safely back to the classroom must be “a top priority.”

Guterres said that as of mid-July schools were closed in some 160 countries, affecting more than 1 billion students, while at least 40 million children have missed out on pre-school.

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