Government will have to purchase over 137,000 television sets if they are to facilitate distance learning as proposed by President Museveni.

In his televised address on Monday, Mr Museveni postponed the partial reopening of schools for another one month but said "children must continue studying under the distance learning programme" on televisions and radios.

He made a number of proposals to facilitate the programme, among them; provision of two television sets to each village and a radio set to each home.

Mr Museveni says much as there are fears that the TV sets could bring about congregation, thereby undermining social distancing of the children, he is optimistic that it is easy to identify any child who has the virus since they are from one village.

"Children from the same village, if they have sickness it would have already shown up," added Mr Museveni.