Coronavirus: Government warns schools against stopping parents from visiting students

The government has warned schools against stopping parents from visiting their children on visitation days over the Coronavirus pandemic.

According to the Health Minister, Dr. Ruth Aceng, it makes no sense stopping parents from visiting their children on visitation days.

“Schools should remain open and parents should be left to access their children on visitation days,” Aceng said.

The minister said by keeping parents away from their children on visitation days, there will be anxiety caused and will do more harm than good to children who will be more worried that study.

“We have developed guidelines for mass gatherings and distributed them. Schools are encouraged to follow them while allowing parents to visit their children.”

The Education Ministry spokesperson, Patrick Muyinda emphasized the need for schools to adhere to the prevention guidelines put in place other than stopping parents from visiting children.

The development comes barely a week after several schools stopped parents from visiting their children over coronavirus fears.

St Mary’s College Kisubi (SMACK) and Namugongo Girls Boarding Primary School among other schools this week made decrees in regards to coronavirus.

According to a circular from SMACK headteacher Doedati Aganyira, Senior one and Senior 5 class days have been suspended as well as all other inter-school sports competitions.

“Following the Ministry of Health’s press statement dated 07, March 2020, on the current coronavirus threat across the world, SMACK management has found it prudent to suspend all visits and invitations of the school until further notice,” the circular dated March 12, read in part.

According to circular, social events have been suspended as well as any other activities that involve students engaging with other schools.

“Please bear with us as we jointly fight the potential spread of the virus in our school,” the circular continues.

Another notice from Namugongo Girls Boarding Primary School indicates that all visits to the children have been indefinitely suspended.

Date	Day	New Infected	Total Infected	New Deaths	Total Deaths	Population Alive
2020-01-01	0	2	2	0	0	7,727,439,400
2020-01-11	10	6	8	0	0	7,727,439,400
2020-01-21	20	18	25	1	1	7,727,439,399
2020-01-31	30	52	74	3	4	7,727,439,396
2020-02-10	40	148	212	10	14	7,727,439,386
2020-02-20	50	414	599	27	41	7,727,439,359
2020-03-01	60	1,143	1,666	76	117	7,727,439,283
2020-03-11	70	3,109	4,567	208	325	7,727,439,075
2020-03-21	80	8,332	12,338	561	886	7,727,438,514
2020-03-31	90	21,996	32,841	1,493	2,379	7,727,437,021
2020-04-10	100	57,190	86,116	3,915	6,294	7,727,433,106
2020-04-20	110	146,406	222,411	10,111	16,405	7,727,422,995
2020-04-30	120	368,943	565,645	25,709	42,114	7,727,397,286
2020-05-10	130	914,979	1,416,280	64,344	106,458	7,727,332,942
2020-05-20	140	2,232,549	3,490,355	158,474	264,932	7,727,174,468
2020-05-30	150	5,358,118	8,464,475	383,998	648,930	7,726,790,470
2020-06-09	160	12,645,158	20,194,466	915,167	1,564,097	7,725,875,303
2020-06-19	170	29,336,767	47,386,614	2,144,619	3,708,716	7,723,730,684
2020-06-29	180	66,887,829	109,334,131	4,940,312	8,649,028	7,718,790,372
2020-07-09	190	149,828,737	247,979,223	11,183,645	19,832,673	7,707,606,727
2020-07-19	200	329,623,221	552,730,874	24,871,570	44,704,243	7,682,735,157
2020-07-29	210	711,986,157	1,210,395,124	54,321,907	99,026,150	7,628,413,250
2020-08-08	220	1,509,410,653	2,603,324,842	116,480,935	215,507,085	7,511,932,315
2020-08-18	230	3,139,574,158	5,497,770,710	245,128,290	460,635,375	7,266,804,025
2020-08-28	240	1,768,983,315	6,899,727,110	367,026,915	827,662,290	6,899,777,110
2020-09-07	250	0	6,722,828,778	176,898,332	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2020-09-17	260	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2020-09-27	270	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2020-10-07	280	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2020-10-17	290	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2020-10-27	300	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2020-11-06	310	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2020-11-16	320	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2020-11-26	330	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2020-12-06	340	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2020-12-16	350	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2020-12-26	360	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2021-01-05	370	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2021-01-15	380	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2021-01-25	390	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2021-02-04	400	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2021-02-14	410	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2021-02-24	420	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2021-03-06	430	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2021-03-16	440	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2021-03-26	450	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2021-04-05	460	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2021-04-15	470	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2021-04-25	480	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778
2021-05-05	490	0	6,722,828,778	0	1,004,560,622	6,722,878,778

Health Ministry guidelines
Avoid touching surfaces unnecessarily.
Wash hands with soap often.
Sneeze responsibly in tissue and get rid of them immediately.
Use sanitizers.
Avoid crowded places.

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