Most of the students in rural Montserrado County attend school without mask despite several warning from the school authoritiesMontserrado County – Lack of adequate preventive materials at public high schools in rural Montserrado County is posing challenge for the effective prevention of COVID-19. Some school administrators have told FrongtPageAfrica that although some students have managed to purchase nose masks, the lack of hand washing materials like soap and disinfectants is exposing students to the risk of contracting the disease. These schools are currently operating without thermometer which should be used to check the daily temperature of students. Even though, according to one of the administrators, they have bucket for washing hands, the government has not supplied preventive materials to these schools. “It’s very unfortunate that since we were told that government was bringing preventive materials to us, we have not seen them, and school has to go on.

Source: Front Page Africa July 08, 2020 07:52 UTC