Coronavirus: How Students Who Have Completed WASSCE Will Go Home



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The Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) have jointly issued an exit guide for students who have just completed the West African High School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and are returning to home on Friday, September 4, 2020 after a successful exam.

Under the guidelines, any school where no positive COVID-19 cases have been recorded, students can evacuate and go home.

Also, any school that has registered a positive case but has not reported any new positive cases in the last two weeks, students can vacate and go home, reports Graphic Online’s Severious Kale Dery at the education table.

This is contained in a statement jointly signed by GES Director General Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa and GES Director General Dr. Patrick Kuma Aboagye and issued in Accra on Thursday 3 September 2020.

After months of uncertainty and apprehension stemming from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, upper secondary schools (SHS) reopened to seniors on June 22 to undergo six weeks of work. academic until July 31, 2020.

That allowed them to prepare to write their final exam between August 3 and September 4 of this year.

The West Africa High School Certificate Examination 2020 (WASSCE) finally started for candidates from Ghana on July 20.

In total, 375,737 candidates from 976 schools participated in the exam at 796 centers across the country.

Of the number, about 188,163 were women, while the remaining 187,573 were men.



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