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- Matric students who tested positive for Covid-19 will take tests in isolation in a church room, clinic, hospital room or community room.
- Social distancing in a place of isolation can extend beyond the 1.5 meter requirement.
- Students who show symptoms of Covid-19 and with temperatures of 38 degrees Celsius and higher, will take exams on a veranda, in a corridor or in a passage in an open, well-defined and visible space.
While tuition students who hire Covid-19 will be able to take exams, they will not sit anywhere near regular test centers.
Initially, the guidelines issued by the Department of Basic Education stipulated that students who tested positive for Covid-19 could not take tests at all.
However, after consulting with parents, unions, and students, the department revised the guidelines.
Students who tested positive for the virus and were deemed fit to write would write in isolation in a clinic, hospital room, community room, church hall, or any other place conducive to writing an exam.
The new guidelines were listed in a DBE circular with revised protocols on writing tests.
The circular was sent to all schools in the country.
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The circular contained strict measures to be taken by watchdogs, education officials, and health officials to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 during the review period.
Surveillance in isolation sites would be carried out by a health officer, educator, examination officer, or private supervisor.
In the isolation place, the requirements of social distancing, use of a mask and hand disinfection will be strictly observed.
Social distancing in a place of isolation can be extended beyond the 1.5 meter requirement, given the limited number of candidates who may be located in a place of isolation at any one time.
“Candidates who are in the company of an infected person are not expected to test positive. Rather, they must be quarantined for ten days and if they are asymptomatic after the ten day period, they are considered infection free and it should allow you to write the exam at your regularly assigned exam site, “reads an excerpt from the circular.
The script of a positive candidate must be inserted by the candidate, in the presence of the supervisor, in the plastic security bag and sealed by the candidate.
The candidate would then disinfect the security bag and place it in a box available for this purpose.
The security bag would then be placed in a second security bag and transferred to the examining officer who would be at the isolation site to supervise the process, but would not participate in the surveillance process.
At the regular exam site, a candidate whose temperature is consistently above 38 ° C will be taken after regular 10-minute checks in the first 30 minutes and / or answers “yes” to two or more of the questions from the evaluation questionnaire. to the isolation room in the center for the candidate to sit for the exam.
The examination can be conducted in the isolation room for candidates who have a temperature above 38 ° C and are deemed eligible for the examination.
The isolation area can also be an open, well-defined and visible space, such as a veranda, a hallway / passage, as long as it is isolated and has no access to other people.
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