By Tochukwu Eluwa
Delta State Government is intensifying preparations to ensure the safe reopening of schools across the states for students in terminal secondary classes(JSS3 and SS3) on August 4, 2020.The Commissioner in charge of the Basic and Secondary Education in the state, Chief Patrick Ukah, made this known in a statement on Thursday 30th July,2020 in Asaba.
He said that fumigation of schools across the state had already started in conjunction with the Ministry of Environment to ensure that all schools were covered before the resumption date.
The Basic and Secondary Education boss further said that water storage tanks are being distributed to schools that do not have boreholes or water supply to make adequate sanitation possible in the schools and most especially enable teachers and students wash their hands regularly in compliance with the COVID 19 protocols.
Chief Ukah disclosed that staff of the Department of Planning, Research and Statistics in the ministry had been deployed to all the local government areas of the state to carry out minor repairs in the schools before resumption.He added that the supply of other items needed to curtail the spread of the virus when schools eventually resume would be made available to all schools before August 4.
