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Deputy Minister of Information, Pius Enam Hadzide has cautioned members of the NDC to stop the agitations against the reopening of schools for final year students.

He said government cannot continue to close schools especially to final year students since it will destroy the educational system of the country.

Pius Hadzide as a panelist on UTV's 'Adekye Nsroma' newspaper discussion programme noted that "testing of COVID-19 is not a vaccination for the sickness but part of the measures to detect or track how fast the disease is spreading". 

He continued that the mass testing of final year students and their teachers will not serve the nation any good since the disease can be contracted any minute after testing.

Schools reopen

The Ghana Education Service is all set to ensure the safety of every school child in the country.

In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, it has become crucial that nothing is left to chance particularly as schools have reopened for final year students in compliance with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's directives on easing restrictions on public gatherings.

The President announced the ease of the public gathering ban allowing schools to be reopened but asked the stakeholders in the education sector, the schools and students to continually adhere to the health protocols to curb the pandemic disease.

As part of measures to safeguard the students, teachers and administrators of the various schools, Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa has disclosed that all schools will be routinely fumigated.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his 11th address on measures his administration is putting in place to combat Coronavirus pandemic stated that: “From tomorrow, Monday, 15th June, the last batch of institutions in this phased approach, our educational institutions, will begin to re-open, with final year students in our tertiary colleges and universities returning to school to prepare for and take their exit examinations. As has been stated, final year senior high school (SHS 3) students, together with SHS 2 Gold Track students, will resume on 22nd June; and final year junior high school (JHS 3) students, the week after, on 29th June.