Parents can't visit children when schools reopen - Education Minister

When basic and Senior High schools resume, parents and guardians will not be allowed to visit their children in school as part of the protocols to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19).

The schools will not also organise mass gatherings such as morning assembly or mass gathering for religious activities such as church services.

The rationale, the Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, says was to keep the students from being exposed to the coronavirus disease.

The Minister made this known when he gave an explanation at a press briefing Tuesday morning on measures taken by the ministry to prevent the spread of the virus among students. 

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday announced that all final year students at all levels of education could go back to school to complete their programmes of study.

Mr Opoku Prempeh said all schools would be required to ensure social-distancing in the sitting arrangements of the students.

He said all classrooms must reduce their sitting capacities and also provide hygiene facilities, such as the Veronica buckets.

He also urged parents not to send any child to school when "the child is unwell."

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