As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, a Gombe State Epidemiologist, Dr Bile Nuhu, on Tuesday said the state had established school isolation spaces across 16 boarding schools in the state.
He said the isolation spaces were for the management of mild cases of COVID-19.
He said, “Out of the 20 boarding schools in Gombe State, we used the checklist that looks at the structures on the ground and the components in the structures that are ideal that can serve as isolation spaces for just mild cases not severe cases. Severe cases have to go to isolation centres.
“So we have established 16 isolation spaces out of twenty boarding schools because the remaining four didn’t meet up with the criteria for school isolation spaces.
“We’re looking at how to upgrade the other four that have not been able to meet the criteria, both the ministries of health and education are collaborating to see how the basic minimum criteria needed for establishment of school isolation spaces are attained.”
He added that “19 out of the 22 final year students” who contracted coronavirus had recovered.
He said, “We are left with three now. We look forward to screening all the students running into 10,000. For now only students in the final year and exiting classes are the ones in school.”
