The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has raised some hope on the opening of schools shut due to coronavirus scares.
Many see the reopening of the schools in the nearest future as a slim dream based on how COVID-19 continues to penetrate.
But the Director-General (DG), of NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, said on Monday that the education sector was part of those being discussed.
“But how do we move from the narrative of a lockdown to a narrative of a safe re-opening so that people can go back to their livelihoods, why still staying safe from this virus?
“How do we do that in the farms, markets, schools, in transports, our offices and in aviation? Really this has to be our focus in the coming weeks, to provide guidance for businesses to take responsibility and re-open safely,” he said.
Ihekweazu said that there were no easy answers, neither could all the answers come from NCDC alone, but from all Nigerians to also help in giving directions to the country.
“But I was happy to hear the efforts being made by the aviation industry, the detail thinking that has started to happen in order to eventually re-start.
“Similar conversations are going on in the education sector, and I have the privilege to some of those.”
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