Mexican parents clean reopening schools where thieves took even toilet doors

Workers clean chairs and seats in a classroom at a school ahead of its reopening amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mexico City, Mexico May 21, 2021. Picture taken May 21, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Romero

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Wiping away dust from bookshelves and mopping grimy floors, teachers and parents across Mexico are sprucing up vandalised schools ahead of the nationwide reopening on June 7.

Mexico has kept state schools shut since March 2020, when students and teachers abandoned them after the coronavirus pandemic triggered the first nationwide lockdown.