Fear of Covid-19 explosion as congested schools en..

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Fear of Covid-19 explosion as congested schools enrol more pupils

Parents, head teachers and unions have expressed fears of a possible Covid-19 explosion in boarding schools after the institutions reopened with little or no infrastructural capacity to protect learners from infections.

Boarding schools are melting pots where thousands of learners from all over the country converged this week, raising anxiety over possible cross-county transmission of the virus. Some schools have enrolled well over 2,000 learners.

The schools fall short of the Ministry of Education guidelines on health and safety, with the most glaring shortcoming being social distancing in the dormitories.

"Going by what has been reported in schools by the teachers, parents and the media, the learning institutions are potential Covid-19 incubation centres,” Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Secretary-General Wilson Sossion said. Blessed and Peaceful Night