The government has coordinated state Ministries of Education across the country to reopen schools, in the wake of setting up proper measures to forestall the spread of the feared COVID-19 are set up.
The federal government likewise guided leave classes of schools to continue on August 4, to permit understudies get ready for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for the following fourteen days.
Since the mandate was given, authorities of the Delta State Basic and Secondary Education have said they are ready.
As per them, attempts to oblige a large number of students who will sit for the Certificate Examinations come August 17 have just started.
Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Mr. Patrick Ukah, stated that 5,697 private and public school teachers across the state have been trained on carrying out the COVID-19 protocols in their schools.
He said:
“We are prepared. We have cleared the schools. The Ministry of Environment is going round fumigating the schools and we hope that Sunday latest, they will be done.
“Our Department Planning Research and Statistics people are going round and currently deployed to all the LGAs just to do minor works in case there are doors that are broken and ceilings falling off in the classes to be used for the SSS 3 classes, they will fix them.
“We have done simulation and we are using the number of classes according to the number of students that are going to write the exams. We have done it such that only 20 people will be in a class.
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“In every school, we have a sickbay. If there is no sickbay, we prepare a class for that school which the Ministry of Health can use in case there is an incident.
“We are going to give thermometers, we are going to give some sanitizers. But we are providing water for those who do not have water through storage tanks. And we will have the bucket taps in most of the schools. We are sending 10 each and we are making facemasks for all the students and teachers.
“We are going to give hand towels that can be used to disinfect their tables everyday. We are sending 30 to every school, so that they can use the soap and water to clean their desks and chairs before sitting on a daily basis.”
