Education Cabinet Secretary Professor George Magoha said that the coronavirus curve is flattening and therefore so learners should be preparing to go back to school.
Speaking in Homa Bay County while evaluating Mawego Technical Training Institute, Rachuonyo North Subcounty, the EducationCabinet Secretary announced that the government will next week give advice to the country on when to reopen schools.
The CS announced on Friday that schools may re-open soon. He noted that the Ministry and the government are observing the system before the stakeholders meeting then they will decide when learning institutions will reopen.
"We will then take the final report to another layer of government which I shall not mention,” he announced, in obvious relation to the President.” Magoha's statement comes at a time when Kenya continues to report decreased infection rates.
The number of coronavirus infections increased by exactly 148 on Friday whereby 40 out of 2,438 reported cases came from Mombasa County, amounting to a total number of thirty-six thousand, seven hundred and twenty-four announced cases in Kenya’s cumulative number of 36,724 declared infection cases.
The number of cases rose by 4, giving rise to the total number of lives lost to the virus to about 646. Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe announced that 98 victims had recovered, 52 in hospital and 46 in the home-based care programme, bringing up the total to 23,709.
CS Magoha said that although he was not speaking on behalf of the Health Ministry, he can authoritatively note that the Covid-19 curve is flattening. "Let teachers prepare to go back to school so that pupils can resume learning as soon as possible,” he said.
The National administration has already allocated KSh1.9 billion for desks, lockers and chairs to be delivered to learning institutions by the end of October this year.
