The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has said it won’t
hesitate to shut down schools in the country should there be a spike in
COVID-19 cases recorded in Nigeria.
PTF National Incident Manager, Mukhtar Muhammed, stated this
in a video posted on Twitter by the PTF on Monday.
Muhammed said, “The issue of school reopening is something
that the PTF has discussed very extensively. The ministry of education decided
to open the schools. Based on our own understanding, it was the states that
actually wanted to have the schools reopened.
“Now, the PTF is watching this very closely, we are monitoring what is going on and if we find out that cases continue to rise in the country and we start to have incidences in schools, certainly, we will have the schools closed.
“In the first instance, we should have delayed opening of
the schools but now that the schools are opened, the PTF will continue to
monitor very closely with all the schools to ensure that they institute
measures and ensure that people follow as much as possible.”
The PTF had in December 2020
shut down all schools in the country amid the second wave of the pandemic. The
task force, however, ordered public and private schools in the country to
resume for academic activities on January 18, 2021.
Our correspondents, who monitored activities at some schools
across the country, had observed partial compliance with the PTF protocols.
Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation,
Boss Mustapha, had also said travels, reopening of schools, businesses and
religious centres contributed to the rise in Covid cases in Nigeria during the first
wave.
According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, the
country has recorded over 130,000 Covid infections and over 1,600 associated
fatalities since it reported its index case in February 2020.
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