The Joint security taskforce has vowed to crack down on schools that have started illegally holding classes in the lockdown saying they risk losing their license to operate. Frank Biane the public relations officer for the Uganda prisons sounded the warning while holding a presser at the Uganda Media Center-UMC this morning. Baine said it […]
The Joint security taskforce has vowed to crack down on schools that have started illegally holding classes in the lockdown saying they risk losing their license to operate.
Frank Biane the public relations officer for the Uganda prisons sounded the warning while holding a presser at the Uganda Media Center-UMC this morning.
Baine said it has come to their attention that a handful of schools have decided to defy the president’s directives on keeping institutions of learning closed to avoid social distancing by gathering children for lessons.
Baine cautioned daring parents against recklessly taking their children to school now because they risk transmitting or getting infected with COVID -19 which has been the case in other countries in Africa like South Africa.
He explained that schools that defied the lockdown in South Africa ended up having over 100 children infected in only one week.
He also warned schools operating illegally that they will be harshly dealt with in the courts of law if caught.
Similarly, Baine has advised youth excited with the return of the premier league that sneak into a local cinema halls to desist from camping in such places because they pose a major threat to the transmission of the novel virus.
He also advised those football lovers who like playing the game in pitches across the country to halt going there unless they have certificates indicating that they have tested negative for COVID-19.
