By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
The Lagos State government has said that the state’s COVID-19 curve has been flatten, meaning the rate of the virus spread in the state has been curtailed and confirmed cases going down.
According to Tokunbo Wahab, the Special Adviser on Education to the Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the development was the reason schools in the state would start reopening.
In Lagos, tertiary institutions are to resume on Monday, September 14, while primary and secondary schools reopen on September 21.
But on the resumption day, the state government says it would only be final-year students that would be expected in school first, while the remaining arms join later.
In an interview on Channels TV, the special adviser explained that the phase resumption was to allow the state’s government to test run the necessary facilities and processes that it has put in place before the full resumption.
“Basically, we are at a point where scientifically we’ve been proven to have flattened the curve. And it invariably means that we are not as exposed as we used to be some five, four, three months back. So, consequently, we have to find a way to bring our lives back to normal. And in doing that, education is very critical to whatever we are going to do.
“In the past few weeks, we’ve been putting in place measures and facilities that will enable our children come back to school,” the special adviser said in the interview which the Punch newspaper published.
