The Federal Government has given new updates on reopening of schools across the country.
This was disclosed during the Presidential Task Force Daily briefing on Tuesday 23 June, 2020.
While giving the updates, the Secretary to the Government and Chairman of Presidential Task Force, Boss Mustapha, stated that the spike in the confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country needed to be considered.
Boss Mustapha said the number of confirmed cases had reached 20,000 overnight as more than 400 cases were newly discovered.
He added that the managements are still planning an effective way to safely re-open without compromising the lives of anyone.
He, however, emphasized the fact that schools will resume following the re-opening of local airports and interstate movement.
According to him, there is a very high possibility that inter-state movement which was formerly scheduled to open June 19, 2020, will be opened very soon.
He stressed that there is good news flying around that Nigerian Scientists have developed a vaccine which will prevent every Nigerian from getting infected by the Novel Coronavirus.
“Since there is a vaccine which has been tested several times and it proved effective, there is a relief that everything may soon go back to normal, especially students going back to their various schools,” he said.
Boss Mustapha noted that every student, teacher and school owner should be getting prepared as the date for the resumption of schools nationwide will be announced soon.
He enjoined every student to start preparing for resumption and cancel the mindset that the holiday will still be for a long time.
“The holiday is over. Make sure you are prepared because the school calendar will be rushed so as to meet up with the lost time.
“Only few schools which meet the requirements for re-opening will be allowed to open. The requirements are yet to be announced but, we already have idea of what some of it may be.
“It is very mandatory for every school owner to make sure that they provide some facilities that will help to safeguard the lives of their students like, running water and alcohol based hand sanitizer, so that they will be allowed to open,” he added.
