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NDC MP for Builsa South and a Member of the Education Committee of Parliament, Dr. Clement Apaak has called on the government to terminate the reopening of schools for final year SHS students and reschedule the date for their examination.

Clement Apaak made the comment in an interview with the media at Parliament House.

According to Clement Apaak the reported cases of Covid-19 in some Senior High Schools following the reopening of schools for final year students will create fear and panic among the students which does not augur well for their studies.

Thirteen final year students in some Senior High Schools in the country have tested positive for the global pandemic, the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a few days after returning to school, the Ministry of Education has confirmed.

The cases were recorded in the Greater Accra and the Central Regions.

Speaking at a press briefing in Accra yesterday, the Deputy Minister of Education, in charge of Basic and Secondary Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, confirmed that six students at the Accra Girls Senior High School tested positive.

In addition, a teacher at the school together with his wife had also tested positive for COVID-19.

Two other students from Odorgonor SHS equally tested positive for the disease in Accra.

In the Ashanti Region, three students at the Konongo Wesley SHS had tested positive for the COVID-19.

Meanwhile, in the Central Region, the Mfantsipim School recorded two confirmed cases of the COVID-19, the Deputy Minister said, bringing the total number of students who have tested positive for the COVID-19 to 13.

According to the Deputy Minister, the students had been isolated and their parents had been informed to ensure it brings down the anxiety.

According to Dr. Adutwum, 648 contacts tracing had been done and the people had been isolated, with a number of them tested by the Ghana Health Service.