The Gauteng department of education is set to deploy doctors, nurses and health promoters to schools across the province ahead of the return of grade 7 and 12 pupils on June 1.
The deployment of over 5,000 health workers is set to continue until March next year, according to MEC for Education, Panyaza Lesufi.
Lesufi said the department’s efforts to reopen schools had already been marred by challenges, including four confirmed cases of Covid-19. In another incident, a Johannesburg-based principal also tested positive and is now in hospital. Lesufi said the principal’s contacts had already been traced.
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