BAHAMIAN students studying abroad said they are making plans to return home amid fears that the global coronavirus pandemic would cause countries to shut down their airports and close their borders. In an effort to deter the rapid spread of the respiratory disease, thousands of international universities have closed their campuses, opting instead to transition to online courses and virtual classrooms. The Tribune spoke to a number of Bahamian students enrolled at American and Canadian institutions who told this newspaper that they felt they would decrease their chances of contracting COVID-19 by returning home. Kirishnia Cooper, who is studying at St Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada, said his university just sent students an email confirming that “face-to-face” classes were cancelled and that students had to “leave campus and head home immediately.”

Click here to read more at The Tribune