The Gauteng education department will be strictly monitoring the Covid-19 infection rate among grade 7 pupils to see whether it is possible for all high school pupils to return to school, says MEC Panyaza Lesufi.
“If the figures are not that bad, we really believe we can motivate that high school learners can come back. The reality is we have lost academic time and it’s devastating, I must be honest.”
According to a slide presentation made during the meeting, the national standard operating procedures “do not prescribe one-metre spacing but promote the principle of striving for one-metre distance where possible.”told a media briefing on Saturday that they were working with the ministerial advisory committee on whether it was possible to reduce the social distancing from 1.5m to 1m.
“We still have to do an audit of the 4,000 to see how many of them hadn’t vaccinated. We must check their health status and together with their doctors determine if indeed if it is genuine that they can come back or not. We are still doing that audit.”
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