Back to School Concerns: MPs have reservations on readiness for phased return | Day35ofLockdown
This comes as the Cabinet’s social cluster has apparently expressed its reservations regarding the Department of Basic Education’s readiness to resume the school calender in phases.
“We should not compromise lives. Life is more important than the academic year. We understand that as the department,” she said. Mweli stated that they would work with the Department of Transport to ensure buses for the scholar transport were sanitised, that hands were sanitised on entering a bus and manage distance between learners in a bus, among other measures.
Mweli said they would provide two sets of cloth masks to learners and there would also be thermometers to take the temperature of learners and teachers every day.
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