Presidential Task Force Raise Alarm As States Plan On Reopening Schools

Following plans by states to resume schools in the midst of Covid pandemic, the Presidential Task Force has responded. 

The Presidential Task Force has sounded a note of caution to states wanting to completely return schools. 

PTF said that it isn't against the arrangements however all plans ought to be guided by the encounters of nations like the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France. 

Review that schools in the nation had been closed in March as a component of measures to control the spread of the Covid illness. 

Be that as it may, the Federal Government declared the resumption of graduating understudies compelling August 4, 2020, to compose the current year's West African Senior School Certificate Examination from August 17, 2020, through September 12, 2020. 

In this way, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said on August 29 that essential and optional schools in the state would completely return from September 21, 2020, while tertiary foundations in the state would likewise resume from September 14, 2020. 

Yet, talking during a PTF preparation in Abuja on Monday, the PTF Chairman and Secretary to the Government of Federation, Boss Mustapha, stated, "The Presidential Task Force values progressing requires the resuming of the instruction area. Furthermore, in fact, some sub-nationals are now getting ready for such. 

"While the PTF doesn't debilitate such arrangements, we should be guided by encounters from nations, for example, Germany, France, the US, and the UK where the kickoff of schools in certain urban areas prompted affirmed cases and fatalities."