School Resumption: Nigerian Government to Commence Disinfection of School on July 7 – Muhammad Mahmood
The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced plans to commence disinfection of schools across the federation from June 7, 2020 in preparation for the resumption of school after protracted COVID-19 induced closure.
This was announced by the Minister of Environment, Muhammad Mahmood at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja on Monday.
The minister said than plans have been ongoing to disinfect schools, adding that the ministry took its time to harness the modalities before commencing the exercise.
Mahmood said, “Earlier I told you that we have sat with the Ministry of Education and we have the list of all the schools that need to be disinfected before resumption. Well, what we plan to do now is to do (decontaminate) the centres that will be used.”
He ...