Minister of Education Fayval Williams, says to date a total of 954 of 983 primary and high schools have been approved as COVID-19-compliant by the Ministry of Health and Wellness.
She explained that a COVID-compliant school has wash stations or sinks where the children have easy access to wash their hands, distance markers to make the students aware of how far apart to stand or sit from each other, and an isolation room with its own bathroom facilities, so that in the event a child shows up with runny nose, coughing or with a fever, that child can be isolated until medical help arrives.
She further informed that a manual for the reopening of educational institutions, ‘Emergencies in Education Manual’, is on its third version.
It was published at the start of the pandemic and distributed electronically to all principals and has been kept updated.
