All the facts about President Akuffo Addo’s 11th Address
PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO’S 11TH ADDRESS TO THE NATION ON COVID-19 CRISIS
?”From tomorrow the last batch of the institutions, our educational institutions will begin to reopen. The decision to include our schools in the Phase 1 of easing restrictions was done advisedly.”
?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.
?With final year students in our tertiary colleges and universities returning to school to prepare for and take their exit examinations.
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?It must be put on record that some final year University students will not be returning to school, as some of them, through virtual means, have already sat their exit examinations.
?So, from tomorrow, operating with half the class size, final year students will begin a six-week period of learning to finish their respective programmes.
?Prior to their return to school, Government, through the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service, has ensured that all tertiary institutions, public and private, have been disinfected.
?”We cannot afford to let the pandemic undermine the chances for our survival and progress”
?”Government has ensured that all private and public institutions have been disinfected. All other institutions without clinics and hospitals have been marked to health facilities.”
?Social distancing and the wearing of face masks must become the norm when schools re-open
?Our intentions is to secure the lives of the nearly 200,000 lives of students and teachers returning to school tomorrow and I appeal to them, to do their part in our COVID-19 fight
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?The increase in our case count indicates that the numbers continue to spread.
?If we do not test people for the virus, we will not find people who are positive and let alone isolate them
?The success of our tracing, testing, and treatment will lead to a reduction in the number of cases we are witnessing
?If you are experiencing any of the COVID-19 symptoms, seek immediate medical help
?All Ghanaians must know that the wearing of the mask is mandatory. The police has been informed. Our survival is in our own hands
?Let us together rise to the occasion and fulfill our common destiny. We can do it