Conduct Coronavirus assessment weekly, Govt orders schools
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has directed all schools to be conducting coronavirus risk assessment every week. Saying that this is necessary as all schools re-opened. The NCDC also directed local governments and states to be conducting monthly and quarterly coronavirus risk assessment in all schools under their jurisdiction respectively. NCDC Director-General, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu stated this in a press briefing during an update on Coronavirus and school resumption. According to Ihekweazu, “the assessment will determine schools’ level of compliance with safety protocols including physical distancing, hand-washing and the use of face masks, whose violation can put students at risk of Coronavirus. “We have also continued to educate the public on measures to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19. “We know that as the economy and society re-open gradually, we may record a spike in COVID-19 cases. We have reviewed the situation in other countries that have re-opened schoo...