The Education and Higher Education Ministries should try to keep the schools and universities open during the Covid-19 pandemic and not close them down as an automatic reflex, Iskandar Puteri MP Lim Kit Siang said today.

While taking into account the need to reduce the spread of Covid-19, the veteran DAP man said that the announcement by Education Minister Radzi Jidin on the closure of all schools from Nov 9, even in states where there are no Covid-19 red zones, had been met with mixed reactions...