Teachers in Abia state are undergoing COVID-19 tests preparatory to resumption of public and private schools in the state on Monday. The test according to a statement by the Ministry of Health was in accordance with the state government’s directive for teachers in both public and private schools and school proprietors in the state to submit themselves for COVID-19 test.
This is even as the state governor, Okezie Ikpeazu has ordered the sacking of about 5,600 teachers alleged to have been fraudulently employed by the Executive Secretary of Secondary Education Management Board (SEMB), Lawrence Ogbonna.
The test it was gathered was to ascertain before the resumption of schools who among the proprietors and teachers had the virus in order to keep the students free and healthy from the deadly coronavirus.
Some teachers were seen at the Amachara General Hospital Isolation Center, Umuahia complying with the state government’s directive.
A testing officer from the Ministry of Health, Mr. Nwadiche commended teachers who had shown up for the test and advised others yet to present themselves for the test to do so, noting that some may be asymptomatic without knowing it and they go about infecting others with the deadly virus.
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