Sources close to Accra Girls senior high school (SHS) say some students have tested positive for Covid-19.
Sources at the Accra Girls SHS said some students of the school showed symptoms of COVID-19 and were isolated in the school’s sickbay on Monday, June 29, 2020.
Health officials from the Ayawaso North Health directorate were called in to deal with the matter.
COVID-19 tests were subsequently run on 11 students. Six students of Accra Girls SHS tested positive and were on Saturday, July 4, sent to the Ga East Municipal Hospital for treatment.
Those who tested positive were subsequently sent to the Ga East Municipal Hospital for treatment.
The president in his 10th address to the nation on measures put in place to check the spread of the coronavirus in the country announced the reopening of schools but for only final year students of Junior High School, Senior High School and Tertiary institutions.
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“SHS 2 gold track and SHS 3 students are to resume on the 22nd of June, with a maximum of 25 students and final year Junior High School students are to resume on the 29th of June with a maximum of 30 students, while remaining students still remain at home,” president Akufo-Addo said.
Meanwhile, before and after the decision by the government to reopen schools, many guardians and individuals expressed worry with their wards being put at risk by having to go back to school.
Although there were several calls for the government to conduct mass testing of students, teachers and non-teaching staff to avoid the importation of the virus into the schools, it did not heed to these requests.
The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), for example, proposed mass coronavirus testing of students and all staff before schools reopen.
