The
Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, said on Wednesday that students in
private and public schools in the country may resume from holiday by the middle
of this month
Prof. Chukwu disclosed this to State House correspondents at the
end of Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President
Goodluck Jonathan.
At the briefing were the Ministers of Information, Labaran
Maku, Transport, Umar Idris, National Planning, Abubakar Suleiman and Power
(State), Mohammed Wakil.
The Federal Government through the Minister of
Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, had last month announced October 13 as resumption
date for all schools.
Chukwu said the expert opinion on Ebola, with the strong
containment efforts by the government, is that the students can resume earlier
than October 13. The new resumption date, he said, will be announced by the
Minister of Education after meeting with states Commissioners for Education and
other stakeholders, who were involved in fixing the October 13 date.
The minister,
who gives weekly report to the Council on the Ebola disease brought to Nigeria
by the late Liberian- American, Patrick Sawyer in July, said that there are
presently 296 contacts under surveillance in the country. The 296 under
surveillance, he said, include 255 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and 41 in
Lagos State.
After three weeks of surveillance in Lagos, he said 320 persons
have been removed from surveillance list in the state.
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