The Federal Government says state
governments and school administrators should start making preparations for the
full reopening of schools in the country.
Schools in the country had been shut in March as part of measures to curb
the spread of the coronavirus disease.
However, the Federal Government
announced the resumption of graduating pupils effective August 4, 2020, to
write this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination from
August 17, 2020, through September 12, 2020.
But speaking on Thursday, the
National Coordinator of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19, Dr Sani Aliyu,
during a briefing at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, said the
task force recommends phased return of students.
Aliyu said, “For educational
institutions which include daycare, primary, secondary and tertiary
institutions. Educational institutions should begin the process of working
towards potentially reopening within this phase.
“However, we strongly recommend
that states conduct risk assessment to ensure all schools are at a level of
compliance and create a monitoring mechanism to assess, create, and monitor
this level of preparedness.
“Meanwhile, all daycares and
educational institutions are to remain closed to in-classes until this level of
risk is assessed. And if there will be opening of schools, it must be staged
and preferably carried out in phases to ensure that this does not pose a risk
to the general public and in particular to vulnerable groups that might end up
getting infected by students going back home.”
Details later…
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