As part of measures to curb the spread of the Coronavirus Pandemic within the school, Authorities of the University of Cape Coast has set up a COVID-19 Response team with the Metropolitan Health Directorate to manage any case of virus in the school among students and staff of the institution.
Also halls of residence have allocated 10 rooms to serve as quarantine centres for the holding of suspected cases or persons who had come in contact with an infected person before they are moved to an isolation facility if they test positive.
Students who are not resident in of a hall would be allowed to enter another hall unless there was a pressing need for the students to do so as the institution implement the “no movement to other halls policy”.
Before the final year students resume their academic work today, the university in collaboration with Zoomlion Company Limited organised a disinfection exercise in all the halls of residence, lecture halls and other academic areas on campus.
Disinfection has been done in other tertiary educational institutions, like Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU), Ola College of Education, Foso College of Education, Komenda College of Education and the Ajumako Campus of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW).
Also posters with the inscription “no face masks, no entry” have been placed at vintage points by the scholl authorities like the halls of residence, library and the lecture halls.Additionally, the notice boards on campus also had on display, an announcement regarding measures being implemented by the university to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
He explained that, a number of policies including checking of temperature of all students, provision of washing sinks and Veronica buckets at designated points and provision of hand sanitisers would be provide by the university.The temperature of each student he said, would be taken before an entry to any academic facility or halls of residence.
The Public Relations Officer of the Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU), Fred Opare Baako indicated that, the institution had put in place a comprehensive plan to ensure the safety of all students and staff who would be on campus.He also said that, the institution had earmarked a place to serve as a quarantine centre to hold people suspected to have contracted COVID-19.
The institution, he said, was partnering with the health Directorate to move any positive confirmed case to an isolation facility for management.”We have a policy of no face mask, no entry to all facilities on campus” he said.He also.said that: “We are adequately prepared to welcome all final year students of CCTU to campus and we urge them to comply with all protocols and directives”.
The situation is no different from the other tertiary institutions in the region such as the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Komenda College of Education, and Ola College of Education.
