Lesufi added that the department was now preparing to phase in just over a million pupils from 6 July.
A total of 176 schools in Gauteng have been affected by Covid-19 in the province, MEC Panyaza Lesufi revealed during the weekly Provincial Command Council update on Thursday.“We are working very hard to ensure that the affected schools are reopened,” Lesufi said.
The department has received close to 1 000 applications from teachers who claim to be living with co-morbidities asking to be able to teach from home. The majority of these emanated from Ekurhuleni South. Close to 500 pupils living with co-morbodities have also made applications. The majority of these also came from Ekurhuleni South.
News24 has seen pupils returning to school with – including but not limited to – masks, sanitisers and most importantly, screening at the entrance of the school to test temperatures. “What that means is that when you test someone through a thermal screen, the forehead temperature that we are seeing – that basically only shows thermal surface body temperature. That will probably be one or two degrees lower than your core body temperature,” he added.
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