Recall that schools across the globe, including Nigeria shut their doors against students in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. This was to help reduce the spread of the disease.
In Nigeria, the clamour to reopen school has intensified, but the Federal Government is still at a consulting stage; liaising with experts and key stakeholders on best safety practices. It advised that schools should maintain a distance of at least one metre between everyone present; increase desk spacing, at least one metre between desks; stagger recesses/breaks and lunch breaks.
Most especially, respiratory, hand hygiene and physical distancing measures in transportation such as school buses were emphasised. They were told to provide tips for students on safe commute to and from school, including those using public transport. “Boarding schools and other specialised institutions will need to extend these considerations to residential facilities, lecture halls, laboratories, and other learning facilities for the all-round benefit and safety of students and staff. Physical distancing and tele-schooling physical distancing at school is required,” the document read in parts.
They should advise against crowding during school pick-up or day care, and if possible avoid pick up by older family or community members; discuss how to manage physical education and sports lessons; move lessons outdoors or ventilate rooms as much as possible; create awareness to ensure the students do not gather and socialise when leaving the school and in their free time, as most studies have used one metre as a benchmark for projection of respiratory droplets, among numerous other...
“We must tell ourselves the truth that for children from low-income household, no learning has been taking place as the luxury of technology is not in their family agenda. COVID-19 is real and hunger-20 is real. Hunger-20 may leave more dead than COVID-19.” “One of the reasons for sudden closure at the earliest stage was to study the nature and trends of this pandemic. Having understood the mode of transmission from one person to another, and what we should do to keep this possibly low or completely away, the best is the gradual easing or opening of the economy. The authorities must be considerate when it comes to the number of those working in the private school subsector. The life of those working in private schools subsector matters.
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