Provide data on teachers infected with covid-19 – Peter Anti to GHS
The Ghana Health Service has updated the nation on the coronavirus infections/cases recorded in schools since January 2021. In its update, the GHS said 2,323 students from 363 schools have tested positive for covid since school reopened mid-January this year.
“There are 166 active cases among students from 4 Regions (Ahafo – 2, Ashanti – 84, Greater Accra – 75, Eastern – 4, and Oti – 1),” the Director-General stated in the briefing monitored by Ghanaeducation.org.
In a related development, Mr. Peter Party Anti who is an Education Economist has called on the GHS to also make data available on the number of teachers who have been infected with Covid-19 for the same period. Currently data on teachers infected with covid-19 is not available to stakeholders.
His request came after the Director-General of GHS, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye at a press briefing disclosed the data on school children.
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Dr. Kuma-Aboagye said there are currently 166 active cases among students from Ahafo, Ashanti, Greater Accra, and Eastern Region adding that the North-East Region is the only region with no case of the locally transmitted virus.
According to the GHS, 92.8% of the coronavirus cases were from the Volta region. Dr. Kuma-Aboagye added that locally transmitted coronavirus cases in Volta Region schools Dr. Kuma said are 512.
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In Mr. Peter Party Anti’s call for data on teachers infected with covid-19 to be provided, he advised that the data on teachers should also be broken down for the general public.
