General News of Tuesday, 22 December 2020Source: GNAAkufo-Addo to firm-up school reopening after Cabinet meeting on December 30President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-AddoPresident Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is receiving briefings from COVID-19 Technical Taskforce on limited school re-openings and would make a firm decision on school reopening in January 2021 after a Cabinet meeting on December 30, 2020. Government in July allowed final year students in the tertiary education institutions to complete their semester courses and wrote their exit examinations. It is in the light of this member of the COVID-19 Taskforce were briefing the President in order to inform the Government's decision whether basic schools should be reopened in January 2021. The Information Minister said a sub-committee on school reopening would soon be constituted to plan and strategise the way forward. That, he said, would ensure that the school environment would not become a haven for spreading the respiratory disease.

Source: GhanaWeb December 22, 2020 13:30 UTC