Barely about three months that all Schools were closed down to avert the spread of Novel COVID -19 in Ghana, Final year Tertiary Students will return to school today, 15th June 2020.
The last batch of institutions in this phased approach, educational institutions, will begin to re-open, with final year students in Ghana’s tertiary colleges and universities returning to school to prepare for and take their exit examinations.
Final year senior high school (SHS 3) students, together with SHS 2 Gold Track students, will resume on 22nd June; and final-year junior high school (JHS 3) students, the week after, on 29th June.
Before their return to school, Government, through the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service, has ensured that all tertiary institutions, public and private, have been disinfected.
Universities, with their hospitals and clinics, have been equipped with the necessary personal protective equipment, and have isolation centers to deal with any positive cases.
All other institutions, without their clinics and hospitals, have been mapped to health facilities. There will be no mass gatherings and no sporting activities. Religious activities, under the new protocols, will be permitted. Social distancing and the wearing of face masks must become the norm on campus.
To aid in this effort, a total of six hundred thousand (600,000) face masks have been distributed to the tertiary institutions. This is to enable every student, teaching, and non-teaching staff to have three (3) reusable face masks.
In addition to this, one thousand seven hundred (1,700) Veronica buckets, two hundred thousand (200,000) liters of hand sanitizers, three thousand, four hundred (3,400) litres of liquid soap, and nine hundred (900) thermometer guns have been distributed, with the transportation and delivery of these items being overseen by the special logistics team of the Government Committee, chaired by the sagacious, experienced politician, the Senior Minister, Hon. Yaw Osafo Maafo, that is supervising the re-opening of the schools.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
