President Nana Akufo-Addo has said a total of seven thousand, two hundred (7,200) thermometer guns have been distributed to all Senior High Schools across the country as they return to write final Examination.
He said All one thousand, one hundred and sixty-seven (1,167) Senior High Schools in the country have been fumigated and disinfected and Each student, teaching and non-teaching staff, invigilator and school administrator, numbering some eight hundred thousand (800,000), will be provided with three (3) pieces of reusable face masks, i.e. two (2) being provided Monday, 22nd June and the third within a fortnight.
Nana Akufo-Addo encouraged parents to provide their wards and children with at least one (1) face covering on their way to school.
He said a total of eighteen thousand (18,000) Veronica Buckets, eight hundred thousand (800,000) pieces of two hundred milliliter sanitizers, thirty-six thousand (36,000) rolls of tissue paper, thirty-six thousand (36,000) gallons of liquid soap.
“A maximum of twenty-five students will be permitted in each class. All-day students in schools with boarding houses will be resident in these boarding houses, whilst day students, in schools without boarding facilities, will commute from home, and will be required to adhere to enhanced hygiene protocols; eating in dining halls will be inappropriate numbers; and no visitors to the schools will be allowed. 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 are obligatory in our schools.”
“One dormitory block in each senior high school is to be used as an isolation center, in the event of a student falling sick. Again, each SHS has been mapped to a health facility, and care will be provided to the sick by nurses assigned to these schools. Through the National Food and Buffer Stock Company, enough food supplies have been distributed to all schools. The government is also making available three hundred and fifty (350) buses and eight hundred and forty (840) pickup vehicles to senior high schools that did not receive vehicles in 2016.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
