Western Cape schools will stay open until a court says otherwise – Schäfer

Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schäfer will not back down on her decision to let grades 7 and 12 return to school in spite of instructions by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga that schools should stay closed for another week.

She has since apologised for the confusion and intends amending the disaster act regulations with the date in it by Friday. But, Schäfer insists she has done nothing wrong because two Government Gazettes state the opening date as 1 June.Positive feedback Schäfer said parents going back to work during the level 3 phase of the lockdown, which eases movement, would also battle to work if their children were out of school.

Data from China, Europe and the US, among the worst hit, and consensus among the paediatric community, and the SA Paediatric Association, is that these early assumptions are incorrect. Studies on symptoms showed the majority of children who get Covid-19 are completely asymptomatic, a big portion have mild cold or flu-like symptoms and only two in 1,000 children might require hospital care.

She added studies then considered the effect of children not going to school, including their nutrition, safety and mental health aspect, and the coronavirus was expected to be around for the foreseeable future.

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