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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>By NewsDay<\/b> –<\/p>\n

THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) yesterday said the COVID-19 situation remained bad in schools and accused government of failing to deal with the situation.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, several boarding schools in Mberengwa district in the Midlands province were hit by COVID-19 infections, sending students and parents into panic.<\/p>\n

PTUZ president Takavafira Zhou said some of the affected schools included Masase, Mnene, Chegato and Msume.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation remains bad. Several schools are getting infections in Midlands and the ministry (Primary and Secondary Education) has adopted a sinister motive of ordering COVID-19 positive students to stay at home for two weeks rather than quarantining them,\u201d Zhou said.<\/p>\n

He accused the Primary and Secondary Education ministry of failing to meet with teachers since the opening of schools to discuss their preparedness to deal with COVID-19 at learning institutions.<\/p>\n

Zhou said the affected schools in the province did not have adequate test kits, which distorted the figures of students who were positive to the virus.<\/p>\n

\u201cTests kits are not in schools. In fact, the ministry is not even testing many pupils that are showing clear signs of COVID-19 in order to keep the figures low in schools,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Efforts to contact Midlands provincial education director Robson Machimbira were fruitless.<\/p>\n

He also did not respond to questions sent to him by NewsDay.<\/p>\n

Provincial medical director Mary Muchekeza referred all enquiries to the person in charge of COVID-19 statistics, Reginald Mhene.<\/p>\n

Mhene, however, said the situation at schools in the province was \u201cunder control\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation is under control, test kits are adequate and pupils from day schools who are positive and stable are isolating at home after home assessment,\u201d Mhene said.<\/p>\n

She did not say how many students had tested positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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