Kuwait will close schools and universities nationwide for a day due to unstable weather conditions, the country’s education minister said on Sunday.

All middle and high school exams scheduled for Monday will be postponed, Dr. Ali Al-Mudhaf said in a statement, giving schools the leeway to rearrange their final exams as they see fit, the dates of which will be released in a ministry statement later on Sunday.

The day off does not include faculty and staff, who are still required to go to work on Monday, added the statement.

Heavy rains lashed much of Kuwait on Sunday, flooding roads and disrupting traffic across the country.

All final exams across middle school levels, in addition to grades 10 and 11 students, initially scheduled for Monday will now be held a day later, the education ministry said in a statement.

The rearranged schedule comes as unstable weather conditions grip much of Kuwait, where heavy rainfall has triggered floods and disrupted traffic, Education Ministry Undersecretary Dr. Ali Al-Yaqoub told KUNA on Sunday.

He went on to urge strict compliance with exam-day health precautions aiming to halt the spread of COVID-19.

Source: Kuwait News Agency