Update: Again, FG reveals when to reopen schools

The Federal Government said it will consider reopening schools after lifting the ban on interstate movement which was imposed as a measure to control the Covid-19 pandemic.

The government also released the report of its search committee sent to Kano state at the initial stage of mysterious deaths at a time it was fighting to curtail the spread of Covid-19 in the country.

This was as the Federal Government said it was pursuing precision actions in 20 local government areas which presently bear a 60 percent burden of the pandemic disease.

While it said it has started offering psychological support to families of patients, the government added that Nigerians who would be evacuated from the diaspora would now have to arrange for their own accommodation or self-isolate in their homes.

The Federal Government equally faulted states in the Southeast for not testing well enough for Covid-19, saying out of the close to 80,000 tests conducted so far, only about 1,625 persons have been tested in the region.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization WHO has expressed concerns over the impact of COVID19 on the growing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics.

FG reveals when to reopen schools

Minister of State Education, Hon. Emeka Nwajiuba who dismissed social media reports regarding when schools would be reopened said the government would only do that when medical experts give the nod to so do.

Onyxnews Nigeria understands that Nwajiuba revealed this today in Abuja during the daily briefing of the Presidential Taskforce PTF on Covid-19.

His words; “You had about neighbouring countries that reopened and shut down again. You have heard about numbers spiking as a result of reopening the schools. Of all the things I would like to do, I wouldn’t want to experiment with your children.

“What we are planning is to actually bring in those exit years first as soon as those who are in charge of the blockade lift it because there is no way we can open our schools if teachers cannot come. So, we are looking at somewhere after when this interstate lockdown is lifted because we need to have that kind of openness for even the children to move”, he said.