Resumption: Lagos Decontaminates Public Schools

0
423

The Lagos State Government has begun the decontamination of all public secondary schools in the state, ahead of the planned resumption of terminal secondary schools classes on August 3.

A schedule released by the Permanent Secretary, Office of Environmental Services, Aderonke Odeneye, on Saturday, stated that majority of the public secondary schools in the six educational districts have been reached.

- Advertisement -

She stated that the exercise was part of the resumption protocol/guidelines for the secondary school terminal classes in the State.

- Advertisement -

READ ALSO: Lagos Govt to Provide Face Masks in Schools for Exit Classes’ Students

Odeneye emphasised that the state has continued to adopt measures to ensure that the COVID-19 pandemic does not spread in the State.

- Advertisement -

“The fumigation exercise which is on-going preparatory to resumption next week for terminal classes will continue after the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) Exams.

“The continuous exercise which commenced in late June has been effected  in all the Model colleges across the six educational districts in the state,” the permanent secretary said.

-Advertisement-


According to the schedule, Oduduwa Junior Secondary School, Mushin; New Era Girls Secondary School, Surulere; Oriwu Junior, and Senior Model College, Ikorodu are listed among schools that have already been fumigated.

READ ALSO: Ekiti State Governor, Fayemi, Recovers From COVID-19

Others listed are Lagos State Civil Service Senior Model College, Igbogbo; Igbo-Owu Junior and Senior Secondary School, Mushin, and Junior Model College, Igbogbo amongst several others.

The Lagos State Government urged school management to make provision for water in the premises with a view to promoting washing of hands amongst the students.

It added that clear instructions should be issued to school management to avoid all sporting activities till further notice.

The Perm Secretary also admonished school management to provide hand sanitizers in all classrooms and hostels as well as ensure that students are tutored on the need to constantly sanitize their hands after every educational activity in the classrooms and wear nose masks always.

READ ALSO: See How to Apply for Federal Government’s 2020/2021 Scholarships

“Schools are to enforce physical distancing where applicable and also provide facilities to reduce the risk of the infection amongst teachers and students”.

“Disinfection of shoes and feet should be strongly encouraged frequently for each student to reduce bacteria infection that could lead to any ailment during their stay in the school.”

 

 

We do everything possible to supply quality news and information to all our valuable readers day in, day out and we are committed to keep doing this. Your kind donation will help our continuous research efforts.

-Advertisement-

-Want to get the news as it breaks?-

- Advertisement -