Nana Akufo-Addo, the president of the Republic of Ghana has said the Government continues to engage with the stakeholders in the education sector to determine the conditions for the future re-opening of schools after the current examinations are concluded by mid-September.
He said Government will keep Ghanaians fully informed about the outcomes.
Addressing the Nation on his 14th COVID -19 update, Nana Akufo-Addo said over seven hundred and fifty thousand persons, comprising students, teachers, and non-teaching staff, in Junior High Schools returning to school to prepare for and sit the Basic Education Certificate Examination.
He said last Monday, the three hundred and seventy thousand final year SHS students, who have been in school for five (5) weeks, started writing the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination.
The president said One hundred and twenty-seven thousand, one hundred and forty-three (127,143) students in our Universities and other tertiary institutions have now all virtually completed their final examinations.
“The safety and good health of students and staff have been the paramount considerations in the reopening of schools, and we have, therefore, insisted on full adherence to the enhanced COVID-19 protocols. That is why, as has already been widely publicized, we undertook a massive mobilization 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. All of these reiterate the commitment of Government to protect the lives of all those involved in the phased re-opening of our schools, and I will not renege on my obligation towards either our children or their parents.”
“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 centers.”
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