Covid-19 Testing in Secondary Schools : Process Taking Place Hitch-free
Secondary Education Minister met with stakeholders in Yaounde yesterday. The aim of the meeting was to ensure that the school year runs without any interruption.
How are we going to handle the health crisis at stake? How is the obligatory Covid-19 testing taking place in schools? Are schools and the different administrations equipped to carry out the testing process hitch-free? What are some of the issues affecting the secondary educational sector in the country today? These are some questions that the Minister of Secondary Education, Nalova Lyonga sought to answer in a meeting with members of the National Secretariats of Private Education. The meeting which took place yesterday March 11, 2021 in Yaounde established a platform for the Ministry of Secondary Education and the National Secretariats of Private Education to work as a team towards a successful school year void of Covid-19 and moral decadence. Lir
droits reservés Nalova Lyonga, Ph.D., Cameroon’s Minister of Secondary Education has ruled that access into schools and teacher-training colleges will be conditioned on the presentation of a recent COVID-19 test with a negative result.
The decision comes amidst a rising number of COVID-19 positive cases across the country.
Minister Nalova Lyonga said in a press release Thursday, March 4, 2021, that her ministry intends to urgently carry out COVID-19 screening on all students and staff.
“The Minister of Secondary Education hereby informs the national and international community that owing to the rise in the number of cases tested positive to COVID-19 over the past few days, the Ministry of Secondary Education intends without further delay, to systematically administer COVID-19 screening tests to all students, as well administrative and teaching staffs of secondary schools and teacher training colleges nationwide,” the press release read in part.
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COVID-19: Plateau Govt shifts date for reopening of tertiary schools- Official
The decision to shift the resumption date was in line with the directive of the Federal Government and the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19.
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The Plateau government has directed tertiary institutions to resume on January 18, as against the January 4 date earlier announced.
Kakmena Audu, the Plateau Commissioner for Higher Education, gave the directive in a statement on Thursday in Jos.
He said the decision to shift the resumption date was in line with the directive of the Federal Government and the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19.