The Ministry of Health and Medical Services has discussed with the Ministry of Education, Heritage, and Arts the current plans for school opening.
“We have consulted with the World Health Organisation, and UNICEF, reviewed all the evidence and taken into account our current situation, and we support the planned reopening of schools scheduled for the 4th of January 2022. We will continue to monitor our community surveillance parameters and work with the Ministry of Education to facilitate the safe opening of school,” stated the Ministry of Health and Medical Services in a statement.
“Our medical teams have continued to work day and night, and through the public holidays, providing healthcare to the sick, facilitating logistical requirements of medical supplies at the frontline, moving medical teams to areas of disease transmission, providing testing, continuing vaccination booster doses, protecting aged care homes, facilitating outreach to remote settings, establishing medical and community-based line lists that ensure timely follow-up of high-risk individuals, setting up intermediate care facilities with appropriate standard operating procedures, in addition to delivering normative medical care.”
