Dr Monica Musenero, a presidential advisor on epidemiology, told Daily Monitor yesterday that the public must observe a four-metre social distancing, hand hygiene, appropriate mask use and isolation of the sick in order to cope living with the virus.
Mr Patrick Kaboyo, the secretary of the Federation of Non-State Education Institutions (FENEI), an umbrella organisation that brings together private schools, said school reopening is inevitable but the question should be on how to cope living with the virus.
He said the Ministry of Education has isolated them in their planning ahead of the school reopening despite having presented their demands.
He explained that they need an education fund to support their institutions in paying teachers' salaries, utility bills and buying food for the learners before they reopen.
Dr Musenero said there is a multi-sectoral committee looking at the various options that will be favourable for education institutions to reopen.
