President Akufo Addo has in his 14th address to the nation on Covid-19 has stated that government will make a decision on when schools will resume after the current examinations by final year students are concluded in mid-September.
He stressed that the health and safety of students are made paramount when taking such decisions to ease restrictions and reopen schools.
“That is why, as has already been widely publicised, we undertook a massive mobilisation and deployment of logistics to our educational facilities to help ensure that learning is conducted in an atmosphere of safety, as we continue to limit and contain the spread of the virus in our country” he said.
According to the President, all measures put in place to to curb the spread of Covid-19 amongst students and in schools pointed to the efforts to protect lives of “all those involved in the phased re-openings of our schools, and I will not renege on my obligation towards either our children or their parents.
He added, “mercifully, we have witnessed only a few cases of infections in our Universities and other tertiary institutions; the few students who tested positive in a few of our Senior High Schools have all either recovered or are on the path to full recovery, and will write the WASSCE; and the few final year Junior High School students, who have tested positive and who are largely asymptomatic, are being managed in isolation centres.”
Source: GhanaFeed.com
