Classroom training trump Covid concerns
The training Ministry has said that it will not announce the school closure policy despite a recent surge in Covid-19 cases among students.
The ministry’s permanent secretary Supat Champathong said considering that schools reopened on May 17, there is an initial rise in infections among students which gradually reduced till they rose once again around June which has now concerned related agencies.
However , the ministry would not introduce a policy to currently shut any school, he said, adding it’s far believed that an onsite classroom environment ideal students.
Mr Supat known as on schools in order to strictly enforced Covid-19 measures such as interpersonal distancing, wearing face masks, handwashing, checking entire body temperatures, using private utensils for meals, and keeping classrooms well ventilated.
His reaction came after a minimum of four schools within Bangkok reportedly started again their online classes in order to mitigate the distribute of Covid-19 amongst their students.
Bangkok Christian College this week introduced it was resuming online classes during July 11-19 after 688 college students and 70 instructors and staff were infected with Covid-19.
Kasetsart University Laboratory School also switched in order to online classes for this 7 days while Patumwan Display School did therefore yesterday with onsite classes resuming upon July 18.
Bodindecha (Sing Singhaseni) School allows students and instructors of each classroom to determine their methods of studying after an unspecified number of students were infected with Covid-19.
Dr Atthaphon Kaewsamrit, mouthpiece director-general of the Section of Health, mentioned children aged under 15 generally reduced their guard contrary to the disease last month.
Cover up wearing among college students declined from 95% in May to 84% in June as the percentage of children washing their hands regularly came down through 86% in May in order to 52% while social distancing rates decreased from 80% in order to 42%, Dr Atthaphon said.
He asked moms and dads to help to monitor youngsters if they show any type of sickness as well as to cause them to become always wear face masks and keep washing hands while in school.
Regular Covid-19 testing will also help mitigate the spread among students, he said.
Yesterday, Thailand logged 2, 144 brand new cases from RT-PCR tests as well as a few, 573 new situations from antigen check kits.