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FrimpongFinal-year university students were also directed to return to school on Monday, 5 June 2020.
Nine students of Mpraeso Senior High School in the Kwahu South District of the Eastern Region have been isolated over COVID-19 fears.
The school is awaiting results of tests conducted on them as they receive medical attention and management.
Subsequently, there have been reports of COVID-19 scares in other senior high schools across the country, just about a month after the President directed that they be opened for final-year students to go sit their exams.
A few days ago, a final-year student of KNUST SHS in Kumasi died on campus after bouts of vomiting and stomach issues.
The school authorities, according to the students, neglected their colleagues out of fear of contracting COVID-19.
In a statement issued by the GDW and signed by its Founder Marie Amoakwa-Boadu on Thursday, 9 July 2020, the GDW reiterated that “COVID -19 is a continuous growing threat” to Ghana as a nation.
The group thus impressed upon “the relevant decision-makers” that is the Ministers of Education Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh and the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Cynthia Mamle Morrison, “to make a swift decision to send children currently in schools back home ASAP or at least shut down schools which have reported positive cases of COVID-19.”
The GDW further noted that: “The six positive cases of students at Accra Girls Secondary School and the subsequent death at the KNUST SHS (due to alleged neglect of Covid-19 fears) is a serious matter of concern” to the group.
The GDW described these as “exceptionally consequential triggers of fear which will impact many of the children and could potentially prevent them from performing at their maximum capacity.”
It’s therefore, urged “decision-makers to act promptly in matters of such nature and consider working promptly to shut down the schools again and if possible, cancel all exams for the year just as GCSE’s have been canceled in the UK for example.”
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