Teachers want the national government to streamline the transport sector and provide Covid-19 testing kits to school dispensaries before the partial reopening of schools across the country.
This comes days after Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha formed a nine-member Covid-19 Education Response Committee to come up with modalities on school reopening.
Through the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet), teachers say students travelling from Covid-19 hotspot such Old Town in Mombasa and Eastleigh in Nairobi should be tested before reporting to national and extra-county schools.
Teachers are appealing to the Ministry of Health to post some of the newly recruited health personnel to school dispensaries to handle Covid-19 testing in schools.
Acting Kenya National Union of Teachers Kisumu Executive Secretary George Kapiyo noted that it will be a challenge to observe social distancing with the limited infrastructure in schools.
