Basic schools in the country are expected to resume next year for the next academic year.
The decision to close down schools followed the record of COVID-19 cases in Ghana earlier in March this year.
Though there have been partial reopening of some school beginning from the tertiary level as government eased restrictions gradually, pupils at the basic level including first year students of Junior High and Senior High Schools will continue to stay at home until January 2021.
In his 16th Address to the Nation on COVID-19 response, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said “The Ghana Education Service, after further consultations, has decided to postpone the remainder of the academic year for all nursery, kindergarten, primary, JHS 1 and SHS 1 students. The next academic year will resume in January 2021, with appropriate adjustments made to the curriculum, to ensure that nothing is lost from the previous year”.
The President assured that safety measures against the coronavirus will be implemented for the pupils and students when they return to school.
While acknowledging the inconvenience parents and guardians are enduring as a result of the continuous stay of children at home, President Nana Addo said “these are a necessary price to pay in our efforts to protect the lives of our children, as well as to limit and contain the spread of the virus in our country”.
Meanwhile, Ghana’s active case count of the coronavirus as of August 28, 2020 stood at one thousand, and fifty-nine (1,059).
“A total of forty-two thousand, nine hundred and sixty-three (42,963) persons have recovered, and two hundred and seventy-six (276) persons, a great majority of them with underlying illnesses, such as hypertension, diabetes and chronic liver disease, have sadly died,” the President announced.
