COVID-19: No Benue Student Has Tested Positive – Commissioner

• Benue Gives Record Of Students Test After Resumption

Benue State Government on Tuesday says no student has contracted the covid-19 virus, following the test conducted on returning students.

Commissioner for Education, Prof. Dennis Ityavyar who made this known, added that the state government and management of schools were working round the clock and had also put measures in place to ensure that pupils and students in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions do not contract the virus.

The Commissioner who made the disclosure shortly after monitoring the reopening of schools in Makurdi said “the government directed all students to resume on January 18, 2021, because we had earlier prepared them very well for resumption in September 2020.

“So the structures are still there. We saw in the schools visited that they have hand washing basins with soap. The classrooms are very well managed, they are not crowded. The teachers and students are wearing face masks and all the classrooms have hand sanitisers.

Read Also: Benue Governor Denies Asking For Return Of Confiscated Weapons

“So overall we are very impressed with what the principals and school managements have done. The government of Benue state through the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, also provided some facilities to support COVID-19 protocols which were distributed and we found that they are still there.

“We have been to primary, secondary and junior secondary schools and overall we are impressed with what the state government has done to ensure that COVID-19 protocols are observed,” he said.

Prof. Ityavyar further stated that the governor, Samuel Ortom, “is very serious about observing the protocols. It is because of his stern warning that in September when the students resumed, the State Assembly alongside the Ministry of Education and its parastatals went on monitoring visits and the students were also tested. I am happy to report that not one student in Benue state was infected with COVID-19.”